Category Archives: words for reflection, relaxation ,and positive living

Recently my friend and I were discussing old times, we were remembering when we first got married we didn’t have a washing machine, all the washing was done by hand, including, when the babies arrived, all the nappies. Eventually, we progressed to a twin tub washer, and when the washing was finished we used theContinue reading “THE GOOD OLD DAYS tag joy peace truth.”

Well, I wonder, how did your Christmas work? Besides the Christain story there is so much loss and darkness around Christmas remembering those who have passed on, and the tremendous stress of the pandemic it is difficult to let go and just enjoy family and friends. In addition, the rot of materialism sinks into theContinue reading “JEALOUSY AND THE ROT OF GREED AND MATERIALISM”

Christmas, in terms of the symbols portraying it, varies across the globe. The word,’ Christmas’ meaning ‘Christ Mass’ is essentially and traditionally owned by the Christian faith, however, the notion of the end-of-year celebrations has pagan origins, and the birth of Jesus took place possibly at the beginning of the new year. The celebrations haveContinue reading “CHRISTMAS IS CRYING”

It seems to me that its almost a rite of passage’, for chefs to travel Europe, and other parts of the world to study and experience other methods of cooking both ancient and modern, it also seems that ‘old methods die hard’ and the flavor is the important result in all their cooking. I grewContinue reading “FLAVOR SAVOR FAVOUR”

Recently I reread my advent blog from last year, and perhaps, not surprisingly, the situations we are living in, and attempting to live with, are virtually unchanged. However even as I write I am convinced that we are to some degree in a worse situation, and thousands are struggling to maintain their mental health. AContinue reading “COURAGE”

Finding oneself can be difficult enough, working in jobs where self-awareness is required is extremely taxing, and more especially when through stress and trauma we lose sight of who we are and exist, as it were, by the skin of our teeth. In many cases, we may try to hide our issues through denial, andContinue reading “FINDING ONESELF. TAGS SPLITS”

In the last blog, we were looking at triangular relationships some of which are useful and good examples of supportive connections. There are many triangular connections within relationships which, when identified demonstrate to us unhealthy ways of living, for example, the triangle identified by Karpman 196 1 as a model of social interaction. The modelContinue reading “support and holding”

Well what happened next to Zacariah? He had felt some renewal following his struggle to get up into his favourite tree and his subsequent sojourn up there. Coming down to earth was another matter. You, will by now realise that the story of our friend Zachariah is one of a pastor or therapist who forContinue reading “CONFUSED….COM ZOMBIE”

Sometimes we would prefer to forget our history especially when we carry painful trauma memories and shame based guilt, which we haven,t been able, as yet to resolve, indeed we may be carrying this and other affects which belonged to previous persons in our ancestry ‘trans generational’ trauma.It is good when this can be recognisedContinue reading “HISTORY MINDLESSNESS MINDFUlNESS”