It is national learning disability awareness week. So I wanted to make a focus of us parents with children who have additional needs. I work with many parents all over the world of children with learning disabilities including autism, aspergers syndrome, behavioural challenges, epilepsy, physical challenges and more. The thing that we parents have in [...]
If you know me, you know I love to talk :). When conversing with most people and even clients when I ask them how they feel they often say "fine". Fine means many things in many contexts and in English we tend to make it mean "ok", but it is not a feeling word. On [...]
I was chatting to a friend about the the huge ratio of female clients that I have verses male clients. I love working with both. Women tend to be a little more open about there issues with friends and I suppose for that reason amongst others they find it an easy transition to coming to [...]
I was stood in the queue at the till of a supermarket this morning waiting to pay for my shopping. When a very well built gentleman stood next to me said hesitantly, while staring at the biscuits and snacks laying beside the queue side "it is very difficult to walk past the temptation, that uncalculated purchase".I [...]
What is anger? There are lots of descriptions available, here is one I find useful. 'Anger is an uncomfortable emotion we create in response to a perceived provocation.' Why do we do it? Again there are as many theories as there are people on the planet, but here is a version I find most useful. 'Because we believe we are [...]
