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Loving someone or something and being loved back feels amazing.  Love is, after all, about caring and concern for the other person and so to ...

We're all getting a bit busier in our pre-Christmas preparations - writing cards, wrapping presents, hoping the postal strike won't stop our cards from being ...

Do you ever run around doing little jobs 10 minutes before you leave the house? Many times I have found that I am perhaps 20 ...

They say cliches are called cliches because they're true. Some cliches around friendship that I have come across state that friends are like the stars, ...

  At this time of year, our thoughts often turn to looking back at what we've achieved and perhaps at looking forward to planning goals. ...

In looking at how to make a good first impression last time, we explored a little about verbal and non-verbal communication and how that may ...

It has been said, that we form an opinion of someone we have never met before within the first 3 seconds.  Not only do we ...

I have not written here for a few weeks, I have been on holiday and I have been on study leave; and I have a ...

Kindness.  Back in the 1980's kindness would have perhaps been seen as a sign of weakness.  The 80's was all about the individual, shoulder pads ...

  In my work as a counsellor and mindfulness teacher I listen carefully to what I am being told.  The details of what I might ...

Sleeping in the recent hot weather has brought with it the conundrum of open velux windows to feel cooler versus the early morning sun waking ...

This retreat centre has been my home for the last week, with a Triratna Buddhist community.  I am not a Buddhist, however as a Mindfulness ...

When we seek help from a professional there are certain expectations we have.  We expect them to treat us courteously, with respect and to meet ...

I don't know about you, but I have in the past often felt trodden on by others and have had to encourage/force myself to get ...

Resilience is the ability to bounce back after the knock-backs of life, and stress is the physiological, cognitive, emotional and behavioural responses to those knock-backs ...

I love music.  I love listening to it, going to gigs and festivals and most of all singing and dancing along.  OK -  I get ...

Thursday May 19th saw me heading along a very breezy seafront in Brighton.  I hadn't been to Brighton since my youth when we would go ...

      With the warmer sunnier days becoming more frequent as we move into May, more of us venture outside in the day time and ...

Kim, a Wrexham-based counsellor and mindfulness teacher has been part of the Diet, Health and Fitness show on Calon FM for 18 months.  Initially I ...

  Are you the sort of person who can't leave work until you have answered all your emails?  Do you check your smartphone or tablet for ...

Teenagers- urgh! It almost happens overnight...your child once did what is asked of them without question and then they reach puberty...the arguments, the grunting, the slamming ...

Maes-y-Pant is constantly evolving.  The seasons of course bring changes, the volunteers too, greatly contribute to the beauty of this open space for bringing family, ...

Do you work from home and find yourself feeling that you "should" be sorting the laundry rather than dealing with emails?  Perhaps in work you ...

Relationships are a big part of my work.  Firstly, there is the establishing of a "therapeutic relationship" with my new client...where the client may check ...