happiness

“I can’t” comes just before…

26 April 2012

Have you noticed how often some people say: “I can’t”? Maybe you’ve even been guilty of saying it yourself… once, or twice.  (I know I have.) The trouble with “I can’t” is this: it sounds SO convincing, doesn’t it?  Something happens, the fears kick into play, and they trigger that well-worn “I can’t” mechanism. “I [...]

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Skipping In The Car Park For Joy!

4 November 2009

Someone contacted me last week to tell me how worried her family were about her. You see, they found out that she had been skipping in a car park, one evening. What took her from depressed, downtrodden and despairing, to the kind of person who could skip spontaneously for joy?

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The Forgotten World Of Positive Emotions

19 June 2008

The richness and the magic of you lie hidden just behind your pain. Only you and your abusive partner are deaf and blind to the very best of you. Trust that your job is to get through today and tomorrow as constructively as you can; by this I mean without getting caught yet again on the old abusive hooks. That is all. Do that and a better future will start to create itself around you. Yes, it may take time but it will lead you back into the world of personal peace, happiness and self-acceptance.

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“How do I stop feeling so worthless?”

25 February 2008

Every time you continue to put yourself down, you do his work for him. In fact, he may have left to start another relationship undermining another woman, but inside your head nothing much has changed.

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