Working behind the scenes, helping people of power see themselves, situations, and others differently
October and November are the busiest time of year for one of my areas of work – performing wedding bleesings. Not the blessings themselves – […]
Not a lot of people know this, but… there’s a market out there for used postage stamps. All kinds of stamps get sold by the […]
Last month, I had some parcels I needed to send. It was Saturday afternoon and, while the High Street was abuzz with keen shoppers thronging […]
Why are some people SO angry with the world around them? Was their childhood and adolescence SO cruel? Were they really SO misunderstood? Did they […]
It’s taken me a few days to get round to posting this, but I felt it was well worth bringing to people’s attention. Each year, […]
Neurosis, also known as psychoneurosis or neurotic disorder, is a “catch all” term that refers to any mental imbalance that causes distress, but, unlike a […]
I don’t often read newspapers. These days I find that the BBC news and the Guardian newspaper websites give me as much as I need. […]
wikipedia: “The id, ego, and super-ego are the divisions of the psyche according to psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s “structural theory”. The id contains “primitive desires” (hunger, […]
The problem with the guide book led me into wondering about how day-to-day ethical questions arise. It seems to me that most of us don’t […]
How many times do you need to be let down by a guide book to make it useless to you? We were using the “Rough […]
