For our wedding anniversary weekend, we went to Beverley, East Yorkshire, which is near to Hull and the Humber Bridge. We were able to meet our daughter, Hannah, which was a joy! We also caught up with a former client, now colleague and friend of mine, Alison, who lives nearby, and met her husband Daniel and daughter Alethea for the…
“They made me, they decided, they excluded me” – do you ever use this language about your colleagues at work, in your head, if not out loud? Recently a friend asked me “So how do you stop being a victim?”.This was after a long talk about her experiences with her family over the Christmas period, where family patterns had been…
I am writing this for somebody I know who is having difficulty at school. Someone who is finding social time hard. I was thinking back to when I was fourteen, and some excruciatingly painful and rejecting experiences I had. I was good at joining lots of things, (something that is still true!), and sometimes – not always, but sometimes –…