It’s Valentine’s Day! Whether you are cynical or sweet about February 14th, there is no doubt that everyone harbours a desire in their hearts to be found attractive to another. And to be told so publicly and showered with gifts? Even...
Read moreSince today is Parental Alienation Awareness Day, it seems like the perfect opportunity to create a conversation regarding the little known or acknowledged adverse childhood experience labelled “Parental Alienation”. Brian...
Read moreWhile we focus on organising our personal goals and agenda for the coming year, many of us at work are also tasked with planning the training agenda for our offices – meetings, workshops, lunchtime talks etc. While traditionally office...
Read moreLately on this blog we’ve nodded at new year’s resolutions, self-reflection, and changing things, people and ourselves. It still being January – marked in some parts of the world as Mental Wellness Month – in today’s...
Read moreHow is everyone’s 2019 going so far? Did you make new any year’s resolutions? Have you kept them so far? We make promises to ourselves all the time (and we break them too), not just at the start of a new year. And many of these...
Read moreWell, for most of us the holidays are over and it is back to the reality of ordinary, every day life. Christmas may have had its stresses, as we wrote about in previous posts here and here, but it was in general a much-anticipated break from...
Read moreAs we enter into the new year and reflect on our lives, it is good to also reflect on the state of our society as a whole, so that we can examine our own lives in context. In today’s Thursday Thoughts blog post, London-based Centre...
Read moreAs we look back on this past Christmas season (collectively loosening our belts!), before we start to look forward to the year ahead it is good to look back at the year we’ve just gone through. And our focus should be on what we can be...
Read moreRegular readers of our blog will know that here at the Connolly Counselling Centre we place great value in helping people to heal and become whole, and in growing to love and accept themselves. Many previous blog posts have looked at the issues...
Read morePreviously we looked at how the prospect of spending Christmas with our in-laws may have us stressing slightly, and how to manage this stress better this time around. Today we look at how the Christmas holiday season in general can stress many of...
Read moreToday’s #ThursdayThoughts blog post is an article by the Centre’s lead therapist, Sharron Grainger, on coping with the in-laws at Christmas. So for those of us with an in-law problem, Sharron’s insight and tips may be just what...
Read moreLast week our blog post focused on resilience in the entitled surroundings of social media. And it occurred to us that perhaps not everyone is as familiar with the term “resilience” as those of us in the mental health field. So in...
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