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28/10/2022

23/10/2022

If you’re striving for it- forget it, honestly

23/08/2022

The cost of living crisis is putting even more stress on our already shaky nerves post-covid. Our team have been working with the Do Good Press to get some support advice out about what to watch out for and how to cope: https://thedogoodpress.com/finance/4147/cost-of-living-experts-share-tips-on-how-to-manage-financial-stresses/ #

As the UK sees a 40 year high inflation rate of 9.1%, there has been an increase in financial pressure across the country. Recent ONS data has revealed three in four adults have reported feelings of worry in relation to money[1], with half surveyed saying they felt worried daily. Charity, National Z...

09/05/2022

Important always but an awareness push this week for loneliness- if you know anyone that’s ‘gone a bit quiet’ please reach out to them 🤝

01/12/2021

1st December, last month of 2021. When thinking about goals for 2022 maybe this is one to let go of?

https://www.thegrowthfaculty.com/blog/4destructivetraitsofperfectionismfromDrBrenBrown

21/08/2021

"Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.
But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.

A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said."

We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.

05/07/2021

Heartfelt, validating, informative and funny- check out this podcast from our own very talented Lisa Bruton, Psychotherapist, on parenting during a pandemic

‎Show Parenting in a Pandemic, Ep And How Does That Make You Feel? - Jul 4, 2021

24/06/2021

By Kurt Vonnegut:

“When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of “getting to know you” questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.

And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, “Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”

And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.”

And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could “Win” at them.”

- Kurt Vonnegut