Fear Can Stop us Achieving our Dreams By Heather Bunting How often do we dream of doing something, only to find ourselves fearful and not pursuing that dream? Fear is a necessary emotion – it keeps us safe from physical danger and can also keep us safe from other...
Grief, Loss and Trauma By Heather Bunting We have all experienced loss of one sort or another in our lives. We may think our situation or family is bad or the worst, but everyone struggles in one way or another. Loss is a part of our lives – loss of a particularly...
Personal Responsibility By Heather Bunting How often do we want to blame someone else for what happens to us? Something happens that we didn’t want to happen, someone says something to us we didn’t want to hear, someone does something we don’t agree with. How do we...
Repairing our Relationship with our Children By Heather Bunting It’s no secret, especially to parents (!), that parenting is the hardest job in the world. Children are not born with a set of instructions, so somehow we have to figure it out as we go along. Most other...
On Leaving a Cult … By Heather Bunting Were you, or someone you know, raised in a cult? The sad story of the Hamilton-Byrne children in the press recently and other cults such as the Exclusive Brethren (now the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church) make us...
Tips to Assist Family Relations By Heather Bunting Families are interesting. They can be the source of a lot of comfort, care and happiness. But they can also be the source of a lot of pain. Each family is unique and each person within a family is also unique. We all...