Category: Thought for Today

📅 Thought for today: ‘Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.’ — Frank Herbert #thoughtfortoday #change #sleeps #awaken #thework #therapist #coach I have had a number of clients “awaken” this year. Awaken from a emotional sleep where they had learned to deny or suppress emotions they believed to be…

📅 Thought for today: ‘It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.’ — Queen Elizabeth II #thoughtfortoday #training #creating #pottery #creativity #flow #gain I had a weekend full of pottery – and being trained by the lovely Sarah Plackett, founder and owner of Swanspool Ceramics in Northamptonshire.…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘I love a good cup of tea and you can never have too many mugs. Even better if it’s homemade pottery, inspired by “The Great Pottery Throw Down.”‘   — Zoe Ball   #thoughtfortoday #creating #pottery #handmade #flow #happy   I was inspired by the Great Pottery Throw Down and…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.’ — Florence Scovel Shinn #thoughtfortoday #intuition #spiritual #sensing #nothought #supervision #therapy #coaching Letting go of the need for “rational thought” and allowing yourself to sense a situation is intuition. A spiritual ability which is a core component…

📅 Thought for today: ‘In my view, the best of humanity is in our exercise of empathy and compassion. It’s when we challenge ourselves to walk in the shoes of someone whose pain or plight might seem so different than yours that it’s almost incomprehensible.’ — Sarah McBride #thoughtfortoday #humanity #empathy #compassion #pain I am…

📅 Thought for today: One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a girl, Four for a boy, Five for silver, Six for gold, Seven for a secret never to be told. — Traditional #thoughtfortoday #magpie #tiding #parliament #secret Not a quote today, a nursery rhyme. A little bit of synchronicity for my Morning Pages.…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.’ — Jodi Picoult #thoughtfortoday #anxiety #worry #rockingchair #therapy Like many therapists, anxiety is a frequent reason for our clients to visit us. In fact, I have read that 60% of all psychotherapy and…

📅 Thought for today: ‘Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.’ — Henry Ward Beecher #thoughtfortoday #sobriety #alcohol #drinking #abstinence #friends I decided during lockdown to reduce my alcohol intake. Significantly. I get a lot of comments. After all, I started…

📅 Thought for today: ‘I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.’ — Abraham Lincoln #thoughtfortoday #friendship #friends #hope #belief #commitment #counselling Sometimes we need a friend who believes in us, even when we don’t believe in ourselves. There is…

📅 Thought for today:   ‘What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.’   — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   #thoughtfortoday #environment #COP26 #fudge #copout #existentialcrisis   So in the end, after two weeks of blathering, COP26 turned into COPOUT26.   National state self-interest came before the future of planet earth.   The national…