I had known Lisa for nearly three years. There were two counsellors at the school but as luck would have it she had been in my Xgroup (the thing formerly known as Guidance classes) every year so far.
She was a quiet child who it seemed chose not to always express herself in the group. But things are often not what they seem to be.Read more
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun”. Ecclesiastes 1:9 Old Testament It …
We are often told to live our potential, but what does this mean and what are some of the elements involved in understanding and living one’s potential and why is it important. I am going …
There have been two people who chose to tell me (separately) that they were gay; in fact it sounded more like a question than a statement. It was the first time each of them had disclosed this hitherto unrevealed …
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see” Henry David Thoreau I do psychology that is one of the things I do amongst many other things. I try with conscious intent …
I have a friend who did the clinical masters with me, Margaret. After seeing a client for therapy she would very happily trot out of the room nodding her head slowly, reassuringly saying, “There’s movement, …
It is impossible to not send messages; we are all communicating all the time with or without words, directly or indirectly, intentionally or unintentionally, with awareness or without awareness. The issue is that for some …
I am reading an article by Greenberg on Emotion Focused Therapy. He introduces the Principles of Emotional Intervention of EFT, explains that experiencing transforming and making sense of emotions is what causes change and then …
A friend was recommended, pressured in my view, to do a life altering personal change weekend recently. The promise was that you will never be the same person again…just give us two days… and a …
Tikkun Olam It is said that the creation of the world was left incomplete, this was done we are told to allow each of us to help complete creation by our constructive actions. Whether one …
“I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. Rainer Maria Rilke Rainer Maria Rilke- Poets.org http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/295 …
I used to run guidance classes at the school with the kids. I was always intent on pushing the issue of knowing yourself. As part of my attempts to “disturb complacency”, a pivotal concept I …
Some years ago, it seems to have been dropped, there was an advertisement on South African TV. It opened with a man in a long brown coat and hat walking on a railway platform towards …
An attempt to clarify the meaning of the words freedom and free-will and to place them in a psychological context. Is there a statement more likely to provoke consternation from people than to submit that …
Is a difficult and challenging event inherently stressful or is it experienced as stressful? This important question lies at the heart of understanding how people successfully cope or not. It is evident to all that …
At university I had a lecturer who taught abnormal psychology. We were sitting in the lecture theatre waiting for him to start talking. Without a word he picked up a piece of chalk, strode to …
So a friend told me the story of him and 39 other young men who were in their basic training in the new SANDF. They lived in a barracks all 40 of them. Each had …
It is unfortunate that the practice of meditation is generally misunderstood and often scorned. I knew someone who on hearing the mention of the word meditation put his hands together in mocking supplication and intoned …
She told me how a couple, friends of hers; newly married had decided that they were going to raise their children “gender free”. As I understand this, it means that they will attempt to raise …
I had to change a bank card number with PayPal today. I sent an email to the contact desk to express my concern that a link to verify my new card was not working. The …
