Do you show more generosity to others than to yourself? Our relationship with generosity can be complex and say a lot about us. We might be generous with our time, money, skills, love. Perhaps we give more than we ever get. Rarely does [READ MORE]
Putting the pieces back together after a crisis, that’s what we’d like to do. Psychotherapist Karin Sieger explains why this is a risky strategy. [READ MORE]
Language in counselling or therapy is important, if you live in a country where your native tongue or one of the languages you were brought up with is not the main language. In that case the language you in counselling [READ MORE]
Holding on to our identity, a sense of who we are and what we stand for is not always easy. Especially not during a health crisis, cancer or other chronic or terminal illnesses, which can drain use of meaning. [READ MORE]
Workshops and events can achieve at least 6 things: engage, waste your time, teach you new skills, stretch you and make you think. Very few make you feel – deep inside, and move your heart. For me, sounddelivery’s recent [READ MORE]
Change is necessary and not always comfortable or welcome. We can feel quite alienated when change is happening simulaneously in relationships, society and politics; when all three no longer offer the trust and safety we crave and expect. What to [READ MORE]
The death of people we do not know personally can still affect us in many ways. It can touch our mortality. The death of the BBC’s Komla Dumor, aged 41, in January 2014 affected me in many ways. And [READ MORE]
DOUBT
Kate Granger, the founder of the campaign #hellomynameis, which asked for a respectful approach to patients by health care staff, is dead. Kate has left a mark on me, my own approach to cancer and my mortaliy. The terminally [READ MORE]
If you are affected by cancer (including relatives and friends) you will soon find, that other people affected by cancer are in a similar yet also very different boat – my cancer is not your cancer. The cancer experience and [READ MORE]
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