Tag: finding yourself

Whenever I think of Joy now, I always picture the character from the Inside Out films. Always happy, always solving problems, always being there for others. To be honest she wasn’t my favourite – it seemed to be quite exhausting! More recently though I have been drawn to explore the concept of Joy and especially […]

So many discussions in recent sessions about having to step back and see your partner for who they are, right now. Of course, it doesn’t start like this – it starts with what they find annoying or upsetting about their partner.  … and I will say there is often a need for this behaviour to […]

When individuals or couples come into the clinic space to talk about relationships thank very often start by telling me all about the challenges they face with the other person or people. They talk about how the other person behaves and what they do and how that annoys them or frustrates them they talk about […]

I did a social media post recently on the concept of TMI in people’s relationships – which is ironic because I think due to social media, we have a case of TMI. But here’s my thoughts all the same. It seems that we have very few boundaries in place nowadays. And this leads to conflict […]

This always feels a tad controversial because we so often hear about controlling partners and looking for those red flags… but quite often when we do some self-reflecting, you might realise that you are actually controlling your partner. Whilst a controlling partner will often deliberately put obstacles in place everyone of us will have some […]

.. plus a few insights into my on line dating experience ! Dating today is a lot different to when I first dated. And even though I did meet my now husband online it was over 14 years ago when there were just a few sites and people still actually met in person as well! […]

Be Your Own Life Coach!– Kieran Fitzpatrick –ADHP FIAEBP So the summer is coming to an end and the evenings are drawing in. And with the darker days and evenings people often and naturally feel less energetic and optimistic and sometimes begin to find it difficult to keep up activities that they were involved in […]

So, it appears it has been a while since my last blog – I believe I mentioned back in August that we had just then lost my mum … and since then life has been very much off kilter. I have planned restarts and then lost momentum or motivation. It is only in the last […]