Finding the right questions can be instrumental in finding out how we tick. Answering unexpected questions can often unlock doors of thought. In counselling, questions can help people to open up, to give a foundation for expressing their thoughts and feelings and help clarify and expand a thought. Using questions as prompts in writing for […]
‘We have to live our lives forwards but can only understand it backwards.’ Danish philosopher Kierkegaard Like many people I’ve kept a journal periodically throughout my life. I’ve kept them all, even those embarrassing teenage ones. I have reread many of them and found myself laughing, despairing and empathising at the outpouring of my […]
All of these books have had a major impact on the way I manage and feel about my own moods and difficult days. The connection with nature can be such an amazing tool to help us reflect, restore and regroup. Wintering by Katherine May I was a few pages into this book when I felt […]
My morning pages have become an ingrained part of my morning. My day is usually better having written my three pages of what is often a pile of incoherent words and bad spelling. In essence the morning pages are three A4 pages of ‘stream of consciousness’ writing – that is writing whatever is in your […]
