Remember…a layer of dust protects the Wood beneath it. When I was growing up and a teenager visiting various homes of friends, I became very aware of others surroundings, the homes they lived in and sometimes the differences in their homes to mine. Don’t get me wrong, I too had Read more…
It is okay to ask for help if you are struggling financially. It’s really quite frightening for most of us at the moment. Everywhere we look or listen we are reminded about the rising cost of living; the terrible predicaments people are finding themselves in with very little “good news” Read more…
There will be lots written about grief and grieving at the moment and rightly so, it’s a hugely personal experience that affects everyone very differently and there is a variety of “help & support” for those grieving but what about the immense sad feelings we can have which feels Read more…
Here’s the thing… It doesn’t matter what age you are, it doesn’t matter who you are, trying to keep on top of everything, how to remember things gets trickier by the day. And if not the day certainly by the month or the year! We have so much stuff to Read more…
As we head towards August and many of my clients are either off on holiday or juggling childcare with work or both, I have decided to take a bit of a social media break for the month. For the last couple of weeks, I have struggled with Covid and Read more…
As we head at alarming speed towards the school summer holidays I talk to more and more parents, particularly mums who are already investing a whole lot of energy in planning things to do that will entertain, educate, interest, motivate, inspire and a whole host of other things for their Read more…
Being British we like to talk about the weather! We particularly like to talk about the weather in the summer and normally, the lack of sunshine. Probably starts from just after the Easter holidays when we start thinking about the amount of sun we are due, what we are going Read more…
With the cost of living causing concern for so many and people really having to tighten their belts and think about what they’re spending money on, it’s always a tricky one when we get invited to something social, particularly over the summer where there are likely to be weddings, barbecue’s, Read more…
Usually a large part of my work is helping clients set achievable and realistic goals whether they are short or long term, I have noticed recently that people are really struggling to set the longer term goals and I think there are few reasons for that. Life is tough right Read more…
I’m not talking about other peoples’ here, I’m talking about our own! We all have those days where we wake up feeling a little grumpy, where we know that we have a short fuse. We find ourselves snapping at the silliest of things – somebody leaves something somewhere they shouldn’t, Read more…