Category: Relationships

  • A 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 these rights in a relationship and allow others the same freedoms. I’ve included this list in my blog because I have found it helpful to use as…

  • What does good therapy look like?

    Does Instagram sometimes make you cringe? I’ve been posting content on Instagram for nearly a year now @belgamlincounselling. The amount of mental health and therapy content on this popular social media channel is huge! Some of it is very, very good, but also I’m noticing a feeling of disquiet in me around content I’ve seen…

  • The loss of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth

    In this post I reflect on my own experience of grief and loss. We all experience loss differently but there can also be many similarities in our experiences in the unfolding process of grief. I wonder how the loss of The Queen impacted on you? Anticipating loss I was in a supermarket car park, in…

  • Everybody’s talking at me

    Everybody’s talking at me I don’t hear a word they’re saying Only the echoes of my mind Fred Neil ‘Everybody’s Talking’ is popular song made famous in the evocative film “Midnight Cowboy”. This tune has always stuck with me. It has started playing in my mind on occasions when I have felt ‘talked at’ for…