Transactional Analysis (TA) is a therapy used by many counsellors to help their client understand themselves and their relationships with people. Understanding the principles of TA is really valuable to anyone, whether they are in therapy or not as it helps you to understand why you behave in the way you do, why others behave … Continue reading You and your relationships – a workshop

An innocent person is walking along the street and gets attacked why?  The attacker needs something. Money, revenge (actual or displaced), angry at the world and needs to take it out on someone? Whatever the reason, it belongs to the attacker. The victim is someone just trying to live their life.  Two people I know … Continue reading Stuff Dumping

Being with my lovely group of level four students is coming to an end. We won't be with them next year,but they've given me an idea. A couple of them mentioned my " witchy energies" and I thought that it would be a great idea to create a workshop on working with earth energies to … Continue reading New Beginnings

It's been six months since I wrote anything. The second lock down was just so tedious, I had no inspiration . I'm back now, working in my lovely little cabin . Teaching on line will finish soon on the level 4. It was a new experience for me, so I learned something, but I don't … Continue reading Back Again

Or, how judgement gets in the way of exploration and understanding. I hated school. In order for me to process information I need to digest it. I know that now, but as a child I felt like a rabbit in the headlights and when asked a question I could give no response or a defensive … Continue reading That’s no excuse!

It's coming up to Samhhain ( Hallow'een) where the veil between the worlds is very thin.  The worlds may be the natural and spirit worlds or the worlds of the conscious and unconscious or both, but the energies are going inward and the movement is towards dark. All things are conceived in darkness and this … Continue reading Inward Energies.

I was talking to a student about ageing and memory loss. One of her worries was about whether or not she could keep up with the younger students. Another was a problem of forgetting names and words. This is something that happens to us all as we age but we can get frustrated with ourselves … Continue reading Memory

I was hoping to get back to England last week to see everyone, start teaching at Bromley Community College with my lovely friend Laura and to set to work furnishing my cabin. I was hoping to seeing my supervisees face to face, and begin the new Diploma in Supervision. I looked forward to presenting the … Continue reading Everything happening and Nothing

I ve been out picking blackberries today at Portmuck. Got two large tubs ful. It reminded me of two very happy times in my life. The first was when I was a child. I don’t  remember how old, but my aunt, uncle,my two cousins and I went off in my uncles “tooty car” to pick … Continue reading Picking Blackberries

We plan to get back to England for a trip at the end of the month. Face masks and social distancing and hand sanitiser. I hope we make it and things don't get closed down at the last minute. My cabin is built and I hope to get back on track towards the end of … Continue reading Back on the road?