one year… one year… I made a video not to celebrate the event (even though I will!) but to explain how I did it. So, thank you very much for watching the following video! In this video I am presenting my own personal experience with Stoptober 2015 and the tools I have used to quit smoking. …
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A new series: S3 : INITIATIVE
03 MAY 2016 Session THREE: INITIATIVE As promised, here’s the new video re. the session about INITIATIVE. We also talked about guilt, and Purpose in Life. The topic of Purpose in Life (and the sense of having a Mission) is very dear to me, especially during my placement as a trainee chaplain at Chorley and Preston hospitals. …
A new series: S1 : TRUST
03 : 19 APR 2016 Session ONE : TRUST As promised, here’s the new video re. the session about TRUST. The links to follow Brené Brown as mentioned in the video are: Anatomy of Trust at SuperSOUL TV here Brené Brown on Amazon.co.uk here Enjoy the video!
A new series…
01 – 17 APR 2016 I am very excited, very hopeful and cannot wait to start! Tomorrow I will meet the new participants at Salus (Withnell Hall) for an introduction, during which I will explain what I will do, who I am, my core approach and beliefs. Somehow the basic contracting of any therapeutic relationship. …
21-day Meditation Experience
Creativity helps focusing, aids the healing process.
2012 – 2015 : lessons learned
I stopped and thought. And found something I wrote back in 2012. When everything seemed gloomy and depressing, lonely and worthless. I know it might look long; but I could not change a word of it… pls, stick with it *** *** *** So, one day you wake up, you get ready and you go …
Stoptober 2015: 3* month & pain
I have learned something new; and here it is! I don’t know if you remember when I was previously writing about the three-worse-three: third day, third week and third month. My ‘cruellest month’ is not April (thanks T.S. Eliot) but December. I woke up one day, about two and a half weeks after having quit also …
Stoptober 2015: friends & habits
I went to Liverpool to celebrate something important with a couple of close friends. Do you know, those kind of friends who really know you and you really know them; and you can talk and tell stories and they are always there to help you. That kind of friends. We have known each others for years, years …
Stoptober 2015: 1 Nov & my Chimp Brain
No panic! It’s the 22 Nov and I’m still a very happy non-smoker! As advised by the chemist and by the literature I’ve been reading, I’m still using only the patches (no gums, lozenges, or other), even if sometimes I forget to put them on (!) and I normally realize that in the middle of …
Stoptober 2015 : my journey
Every journey through addiction and then recovery is very personal and I do not believe that there’s one way-fits all therapy or theory that can help.
The Resting Tree 