A quick post for me.
Wanted to see how it would feel like to be without the computer for 5 days, a week seemed too long, and also to do those tasks that I have been meaning to get done. Apart from 5 mins of e-mails that would be it. Planned to phone some long-distance friends, [...]
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Why no Computer?
Posted in Debate, Home, Modern society, Psychology, Relationships, Thoughts, goals, lonelyness, tagged Absence, Computerban, Detox, Internet, Loss, Missing on April 25, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Valentine Love
Posted in Debate, Home, Men, Psychology, Relationships, Thoughts, tagged Cards, Celebration, Flowers, Friends, Husband, Life, Living, Love, Lovers Mistress, Realtionships, self-esteem, Valentines, Wife on February 13, 2009 | 8 Comments »
My husband and I always have mixed feelings about celebrating Valentines day. We hate the commercialism of the whole thing and the pressure that cards and flowers should be given, and any potential disappointment, if say a modest bunch of flowers were bought, instead of the most expensive ones on display.
Each year, men gather around the red [...]
Just What the Doctor Ordered
Posted in Change, Health, Psychology, Relationships, Thoughts, Uncategorized, tagged Badnews, DoctorOrdered, Frame of Mind, Grief, Heart, Illness, Loss, Postive, Shock, Sickness on November 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
October 31st is a day that everyone remembers. It is Halloween night and for us the anniversary of some friends who got married six weeks before we did. October 31st will also be significant for me and my other-half. It was the day that we were told my husband has a chronic, life- limiting condition of [...]
Learning
Posted in Change, Children, Commitment, Debate, Home, Ideas, Learning, Personal Growth, Psychology, Relationships, Skills, Thoughts, achievement, goals, tagged Critical thinking, Daughter, Discussion, goals, Learning, Pupil, Reflection, School, self-esteem, Tasks on September 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The word learning will have many different meanings to people and how their own views, believes, perceptions and thoughts, when pondering upon its definition, will differ and perhaps extend to another word linked to learning, that being education. Education and learning for me, and to many other thinkers, philosophers, teachers and writers will be words viewed as a process entwined both together as well as separately. To be educated does not [...]
The 29th August.
Posted in Change, God, Health, Home, Liberation, Modern society, Personal Growth, Psychology, Relationships, Religion, Thoughts, Women, families, tagged 29th August, Abuse, Change, Divorce, Life, Living, Marriage, Mental Breakdown, Relationships, Turning point on August 30, 2008 | 5 Comments »
A rather frightening and sobering thought occurred to me late yesterday evening. It was the 29th August, a date that will always stick in my memory, etched into my being for as long as I dwell upon this earth.
On August 29th 1984, I met and walked into a relationship that was to have the most [...]
Cleaning
Posted in Change, Environment, Home, Modern society, Psychology, Relationships, Thoughts, families, tagged Cleaning, control, Home, Housework, renewal, Self on June 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Today, I want to write a little about cleaning. Boring you say! Yes, cleaning is tedious, repetitive and time consuming. Like relationships you just have to keep scrubbing away hoping the dirt will come off eventually. so today, I am talking about cleaning, but then again I am not talking about cleaning. After writing Reflections [...]
Love’s Executioner
Posted in Change, Debate, Health, Learning, Modern society, Personal Growth, Psychology, Relationships, Thoughts, tagged Book, Client, confidence, Counselling, Dial a Counsellor, Emotions, Exploitation, I.D Yalom, Love's Executioner, mind, Profession, Professional, Psychiatry, Psycho-therapy, Review, Self, Skilled, Story, Tale, Thelma, Therapist on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It is not very often that I read 111 pages all in one gigantic reading session. But this was no ordinary book: this was I.D Yalom’s Love Executioner. Gripping, absorbing, compelling, this is one book where the word novel could not even begin to describe it accurately. It was certainly a story book. Actually, a [...]
When Nietzsche Wept
Posted in Learning, Men, Philosophy, Psychology, Relationships, Thoughts, Writing, tagged Book, Film, I yalom, When Nietzsche Wept, YouTube on May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A recent fan of acclaimed pyschotherapist I yalom, I went off today in search of his works on Amazon. Having read parts of Existential Pyschotherapy which inspired me to write The Field of Bricks, and now the totally gripping and compelling Love’s Executioner and other tales of psychotherapy, I am intrigued to find out more about [...]



