The multitude of counsellors in Tring and Berkhamsted – Part 2
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In the multitude of counsellors there is safety – Part 1
If you have relationship problems – at home or at work – Google Maps suggest there is no shortage of support locally, with 16 counsellors in Tring and 18 in Berkhamsted.
Most of them appear to offer advice regarding difficult relations at home, but where can you find a specialist in the other family – the one at work?
St Peter’s special offer – (or how to approach the New Year)
Do you know the proposition “St Peter’s special offer?”
Should we depress ourselves by keeping up to date?
Traditionally we would distinguish between reactive and endogenous depression. Nowadays these terms are less used, but reactive depression is still widespread and very unwelcome..
Farmers worries – Up horn, down corn?
Of farmers’ worries we can safely claim to have a better understanding than most. Farming is a classic example of home, business and personal life intersecting, and any arable farmer who is not worried at present is either very lucky or brilliantly farsighted.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas. . .
If you loathe Christmas you are not alone (or you may be alone, and that’s the problem. . . ). 20% of UK adults (more men than women) claim to dislike Christmas, and the antipathy appears to increase with age.
Catastrophe theory, or slippery slope?
Catastrophe Theory is an amusing mathematical wheeze which posits an abrupt and probably unexpected switch. Developed by French mathematician René Thom in the 1960s, it describes how a relatively balanced state can shift in a dramatic, sudden way – a surprising and significant change in behaviour rather than a gradual variation.
You cannot erase remembered pain
Fred Hertzberg was an American psychologist well known in the 60s for his sensible theories and recommendations around job satisfaction and productivity.
Failure, Fault and Blame
Ah, this old hobby horse. If only more people rode it (dodgy metaphor, but let it go). Mostly, the meanings and values seem to be misunderstood.
Father Brown
G.K. Chesterton’s character Father Brown was inclined to say “It isn’t that they can’t see the solution; it is that they can’t see the problem”. Gosh, isn’t that so often what humans do?
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