Is hope real, or even helpful?

Is hope real, or even helpful?

I have always had a tricky relationship with the concept of hope. It started when I worked as a Spiritual Care Practitioner at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Every day, nine days a fortnight, I would sit with people and their loved ones going through cancer...
How judgement helps make life more wonderful

How judgement helps make life more wonderful

But doesn’t judgement create conflict and division? I hear you ask. When its unquestioned, yes. For sure. Or we judge ourselves for having judgements! (“I’m such a bad person for thinking he is stupid”). Many counselling clients struggle with judgments, of themselves...
No Bad Parts

No Bad Parts

Do you have ‘bad parts’? Parts of you that you wish didn’t exist? The Internal family systems (IFS) model of psychotherapy says: THERE ARE NO BAD PARTS! This model provides a wonderful framework for working with the parts of us that get ignored or activated at...