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Self-worth Challenge (Part 3)
Welcome to part 3 of the Self-worth Challenge! This is the final part of my blog on discovering healthy self-worth. You can find Part 1 if you click here, and Part 2 here So far we’ve learned that self-awareness and self-acceptance are important aspects of discovering and healing our sense of self-worth. The third ingredient…
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Self-worth Challenge (Part 2)
Welcome to part 2 of the Self-worth Challenge. You can find Day 1 if you click here. We’ve talked about the importance of developing self-awareness as one of the steps to gaining insight into your own self-worth with the intention of improving it. Your development of your own self-awareness is now a work in progress.…
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Self-worth Challenge (Part 1)
How do you really feel about your self-worth? Have you ever stopped to think? If you’re curious to discover more about developing a healthy sense of self-worth this three-part blog is for you! I’m going to be inviting you to start your journey into understanding your self-worth by setting you some gentle challenges. All you…
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Coping with Overwhelm
8.10am Valentines Day I’d been up all night arranging roses for delivery and I was exhausted! As I opened our shop for business, I noticed large flakes of snow swirling in the wind and starting to settle. It was the last straw! I felt so overwhelmed; such a bleak feeling of powerlessness and despair. I…
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Counselling in Bradford on Avon
Bradford on Avon is a picturesque town in the heart of Wiltshire. It’s on the southern edge of the Cotswolds and is known for its vibrant history and beautiful stone buildings. The River Avon and the Kennet & Avon Canal both run through the heart of the town. There’s an array of unique shops, pubs…
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Gaming Addiction and Digital Technology: Impact on Mental Health
We’re all impacted… Do you think you are impacted by gaming addiction or overuse of technology? Maybe or maybe not, but we’re all probably aware of what a time-sink going online can be. It feels like 10 minutes but when we look at the clock two hours have flown by! Two hours we’ll never get…
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Finding Self Acceptance
Would you rather be someone else? If you’re not feeling happy with who you are right now, and wish you weren’t ‘you’ but someone else with better qualities, I get it! I’ve been there myself. Life can be a real struggle, a disappointment and seem to be so unfair at times when we feel we…
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The Counselling Journey
Counselling is a bit like going on a journey together… We start by building a safe place which will always be there when you need it. That’s the confidential space where we meet and the professional relationship built on trust, acceptance and caring between us. We learn what’s important for you – your destination –…
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Personal Bill of Rights
This Personal Bill of Rights is an idea that we all have certain rights as human beings in personal relationships with others. We should be free to exercise or assert these rights in a relationship and, at the same time, consider the needs of others, allowing them the same freedoms. I’ve included this list in…
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Will you be lonely this Christmas?
How will you be lonely this Christmas? The Pressure of Christmas There’s just so much pressure to be jolly at Christmas isn’t there? Everybody seems to be having a wonderful time, but for many of us it can be a bitter sweet experience, or there may be no sweet at all. For all the people…