Woman Enough? Chapter 6 – No More Gold Stars
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…
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June 21, 2022
No More Gold Stars: Chapter 5 – Managing our Discomfort
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…
May 5, 2022
No More Gold Stars: Chapter 4 – Whose rules? Whose values?
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…
April 20, 2022
No More Gold Stars: Chapter 3 – Escaping what Binds Us
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…
April 6, 2022
No More Gold Stars: Chapter 2 – Just fun won’t do!
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…
March 26, 2022
No More Gold Stars: Chapter 1 – Identifying the Problem
Recently, I was talking with someone I am very close to. We agreed that we are both very lucky and, compared with many people, we have not suffered badly through…
March 17, 2022
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Sharing what helps
Have you heard of Sara Bareilles? Pre lockdown she was getting plaudits for her a music for the West End show ‘Waitress’ but I wouldn’t have noticed that if I…
November 3, 2020
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The Uninvited Guests from the Unremembered Past?
‘You’ve made your bed so you’ll have to lie in it.’ ‘Life isn’t a bed of roses’. ‘Well, you know what thought did…he followed a muck cart and thought it…
November 3, 2020
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The Inner Child
Losing a parent when you are young is, inevitably, sad and difficult. Sad but not inevitable is feeling that our parents are absent when they are actually still with us. …
October 30, 2020