A Dignified End?

At risk of seeming obsessed with death and dying, an article on the Guardian website today offers a fascinating insight into the process for assisted suicide set up by Dignitas, the Swiss not-for-profit organisation which handles assisted suicide deaths. I don’t like the idea of blogging just to link to another article, but in this [...]

New Experiences: The Pros and Cons

I think it’s a vital part of any practicing counsellor or therapist to be involved in ongoing personal development, both in a professional sense – through training programs and workshops, peer groups and conference attendance – and also through developing an awareness of our own responses and processes in the real world. Over the last [...]

The Significance of Anniversaries

Husbands forget them and wives get angry. Isn’t that all there is to anniversaries? It might depend on the marriage, possibly. But in a wider context, I believe that anniversaries have a greater purpose and significance to all of us. As a construct of human design, days and dates serve the function of giving us markers [...]