Michelle Wood Counselling

29/12/2025

Gratitude is and will forever be a buzzword for those who seek spiritual expansion, personal development, and manifestation methods. This powerful practice and state of mind will always stay in style because there’s no season where it won’t improve your life.

Exercising gratitude shifts your focus away from fear, lack, and desire, and aims it toward presence, abundance, celebration, awe, positivity, and appreciation.⁣⁣

Gratitude is a must if you wish to enjoy your life. You can spend a lifetime in constant pursuit of bigger and better things, never really holding on to a feeling of appreciation and accomplishment. The mind will continue to look for the next thing to be happy, and happiness will never occur where you are, in the present moment – the only time we ever have.⁣⁣

Here’s the thing, your problems and feelings are valid, despite how insignificant your current situation might look compared to what someone is going through. Struggles are relative. You deserve compassion and support. Suppressing your emotions can be dangerous as it may encourage you to minimize your struggles in the future while imprinting guilt and shame.⁣⁣

Nevertheless, exercising awareness of your privilege and cultivating gratitude can help you gain perspective and clarity. Also, identifying your blessings can help you meet others with more compassion, grace and understanding.⁣

When you’re going through a tough time, gratitude might be a reminder that says:⁣⁣

“It’s OK to feel this way. I acknowledge it and accept it. I also know that my life isn’t as bad as these emotions are making it out to be.”⁣⁣

Once your thoughts lean toward this trajectory, you can sustain momentum by proving to yourself why your life isn’t bad. Maybe it’s having internet access and working electricity or specific relationships.⁣

When you’re less stuck on any difficult emotions, you’re able to release some of the mental tension that inhibits your confidence and actions towards a solution. You begin to identify more opportunities.⁣⁣

Furthermore, when gratitude becomes a practice and your natural response or state of mind, happiness is found regularly in your life.

29/12/2025

29/12/2025

✨Remember this:
you are worthy,
you deserve real love,
nurturing relationships,
and days that begin with lightness.

💗When you treat yourself with kindness, the world learns to do the same.

DM - Daily Motivation by Alice

16/12/2025

Storms always pass ❤️

Our groups are here for any man 18+, they’re a safe non-judgemental space for guys to talk. Every Monday 7-9pm (excluding bank holidays)👌

16/12/2025

Some days you just need a gentle reminder… that you’re doing better than you think, growing more than you notice, and becoming someone your younger self would be so proud of. 🥰
We’re all changing, evolving, unfolding in our own ways and it’s okay if you’re not the person you used to be.
It’s okay if your journey looks different than you imagined.
It’s okay if you’re still figuring out who you’re becoming. That’s part of being human. 💛

And please remember this:
You are not “too much.”
You were never too loud, too emotional, too sensitive, too soft. You are exactly enough in the ways that matter.
There is room for your dreams here.
There is space for your heart, even on the days it feels heavy or complicated.

Something good is making its way toward you, quietly, slowly, but surely.
The kind of good you don’t have to chase or fight for.
The kind that feels like alignment, relief, and finally being held by life again. ✨

Your feelings? Valid. Even the messy ones. Even the ones you hide.
Even the ones that arrive without warning. They’re not signs of weakness, they’re signs you’re alive, aware, and growing.

So take a breath. Softly come back to yourself.
You’re not behind. You’re not late.
You’re just becoming. ❤️

16/12/2025

Sometimes all the extra pressure at this time of year makes things feel even heavier, especially if you’re already having a tough time. We’re here if you need us. 116 123 📱

31/08/2025

This 12yr old, Rebecca Young, has won the U.K's prestigious Engineers MacRobert Medal for inventing a solar powered blanket, beating 70,000 other entries.💯💥🤛 Something for local councils to consider concerning their homeless. Be good to see them handing these out before winter next year!!❄️🌬❄️☃️🌧

31/08/2025

23/06/2025

Every Monday 7-9pm (except bank holidays) our doors are open to any man 18+. 👌

No bookings. No fees. No pressure to talk. You can take it all at your own pace, one step at a time. ❤️

We now have just under 300 groups across the UK, as well as online groups. Visit our website to find your nearest group or drop us an email to info@andysmanclub.co.uk to join our online groups.