Posts Tagged ‘trauma’
Letting go of the past
I think most people are hanging on to something from the past and don’t realise it. We’re very good, especially we British, at stiffening our upper lip and the ‘least said, soonest method’ attitude. Well, no! Because when we hold pain, memory, traumatic events etc. inside and don’t verbalise how we feel, we develop an…
Read MoreHow to open ourselves once more to joy
Do you wake up joyful, looking forward to the day, or do you drag yourself out of bed, propping up your eyelids open with caffeine? When the kids jump on you do you roll around with them, loving the feel of them hugging you, or do you tell them to get off, sit down and…
Read MoreRiding the wave of life’s challenges
“If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs…….”[i] Rudyard Kipling wrote these words as the opening line of his poem ‘If’, in 1895. I have taken them very much out of context, but I often think of these lines, especially at the moment. We are going through “interesting times” (an…
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