Christmastime is often described as joyful, but for many people it can feel anything but. If you’re living with anxiety, grieving a loss, or navigating sensory overload, December’s noise and pressure can be exhausting. You are not alone—and you’re not failing if the season feels heavy. This post offers gentle ideas to help you move through the holidays with more steadiness, along with how counselling can support you in Chorley (PR6) and online. Why can this time of year feel

Change is a natural part of life, but that doesn’t mean it always feels easy. Even when change is something you’ve chosen or looked forward to – a new job, a move, a relationship, a child leaving home – it can still stir up anxiety, self-doubt, and a sense of being completely overwhelmed.  You might notice yourself thinking, “I should be coping better than this,”  or “Everyone else seems to manage, why can’t I?”  If that feels familiar, you’re not alone.  In this blog, I’ll e

As the days shorten, the air turns colder, and the evenings feel longer, many of us notice a subtle shift in our mood, energy, or sense...

I realised today that I haven't written a blog yet this year! Where has the time gone??!! So I decided to use the fact it is Mental...

Christmas is often portrayed as a time of joy, togetherness, and celebration, however, for many people, it also brings heightened anxiety...

With the new school year beginning it has, as it always does, got me thinking about new beginnings.  New beginnings often evoke a mix of...

Whether you're struggling with work, school, or personal projects, low motivation can creep in making tasks seem insurmountable

The location of therapy sessions has changed, more so since covid, no more does a therapy session have to be held in a therapy office. ...

What is EFT? EFT is acupuncture but without the needles.  By tapping on acupuncture points on your body while thinking about a...

In life there are things that can be controlled and things that cannot. meeting something that cannot be controlled can result in...

This week is Mental Health Awareness week 2023 and this year the theme is Anxiety. I work a lot with anxiety, it can become so...

Following on from my last post talking about guilt v's regret in grief this part of the blog will focus on different ways of dealing with...

Guilt in grief is ‘normal’ a lot of people feel guilty for something when they are grieving, you are not alone in this, as hard as it...

(This is a re-write of a blog written in 2020) 2 years I wrote a blog post about Blue Monday, the 3rd Monday of January and supposably...

This week (2nd– 8th December) is Grief awareness week and, instead of writing the usual blog on coping with grief I thought I would write...

With the death of the Queen, a week ago today, there seems to be so much grief around, grief for the Queen, grief for the change in...

The summer is drawing to its end and autumn is on the horizon, you can almost smell it in the air now – I can’t wait. It is one of my...

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How is 2022 treating you so far? How are you doing with your new year’s resolutions? Wherever you are with them I do hope you are not...

So in the last blog we got to the 8th presupposition, I wonder how you have felt and what you have thought about the ones so far, if any...