This blog site has contributors from various walks of life, including counsellors, students and the public.
Our history started during counselling courses which the founders attended, together. Our growing network of competent counsellors and therapists blossomed as we graduated and began our professional lives.
Hi there! We’re trying to leave some lasting ideas, which can be bookmarked and build into better ways of living.
Please help to add to the wisdom:
– more permanent than a Facebook post,
– not as difficult to edit as Wikipedia,
but most importantly – have fun learning – share what you know, learn what you don’t know.
Featured posts:
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Burnout causes & solutions
One Solution – a specialist therapist, for instance, in Kent, U.K. https://www.theburnoutcounsellor.co.uk Bibliotherapy solution Dr Claire Plumbly’s Burnout book (2024). Initial chapters are available on Google books, or Kindle. Listen to the book on Spotify (premium required). The yin-yang balance needs to be in place regarding the above bibliotherapy solution, because carefully approaching self-help and…
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Burnout: why relaxing doesn’t always help.
Someone who is burnt out may be feeling “tired but wired”. The “stress bucket” is a metaphor to explain why rest doesn’t always cure burnout. Stress Bucket In most cases someone can relieve stress in various ways and restore their usual capacity for taking on work. However the person in chronic burnout finds that their…
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Data points while changing habits
Relapse prevention via data points The very first step to recover from a relapse is to rename the event from a “relapse” to “data point”. Asking, with curiosity, what led up to the relapse (i.e., what triggered the relapse of behaviour returning back to the unwanted actions of the past.) For instance: having a cigarette,…