No More Gold Stars – Chapter 11: Striving for Gold Stars or rampant hedonism?
Photo by fikry anshor on Unsplash A very old friend and follower of this blog wrote to me the other day suggesting that an unfair characterisation of the thrust of…
Photo by fikry anshor on Unsplash A very old friend and follower of this blog wrote to me the other day suggesting that an unfair characterisation of the thrust of…
Photo by Esmonde Yong on Unsplash Walking with a friend in bright sunshine, a glorious antidote to the physical and political gloom of this particular January, I was reminded of…
It’s a long time since my last post, diverted as I have been by this new member of the family! Gold Star for helping to make the bed? Digby, now…
Photo by Justin W on Unsplash What a strange couple of weeks it has been in the UK! Whatever our thoughts and feelings about monarchy, it has been hard to…
Image courtesy of Milad Fakurian on Unsplash I worked for a long time with a teenage client with high-functioning autism and ADHD. This was a hugely difficult but not uncommon…
Arbeit macht frei No more fucking gold stars that the teacher licked onto a chart no more verbal ability tests going off the top of the scale no more feeling…
Dungarees proving to be the ONLY way to manage the discomfort of shingles! 'We do the best we can with the resources we have available at the time.' This is…
Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash The Locus of Evaluation Our rules and assumptions are about a huge range of issues. We will have them about love and marriage, parents…
In the years I have worked as a counsellor, I have heard many powerful beliefs, rules and assumptions expressed. Here is a list of some that you may hold or…
Lots of gold stars for me for making dolls! So where should we start? To a large extent, this is a record of my personal journey, what I’ve discovered and…