It feels like our world has stopped turning. Numbness takes over and bright blue skies lose their colour. In a room full of people, we can feel isolated and alone. The pain can be so painful that we don’t even feel it…until we do. Then when it comes knocking we […]
Mental Health & Mindfulness
Can you sense Spring in the air? The promise of it, the feeling of hope it can elicit. Are you aware of a changing energy in your body? A felt sense in the body of playfulness, mischief or maybe even foolishness? We are moving forward with the longer days, brighter […]
Noreen Coomey of Transition Coaching and Psychotherapy looks at why we may resist change and how we can navigate this challenge. According to Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw “Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”. Change is inevitable and a constant force […]
In January 2024, I will have been working with psychotherapy and counselling clients for three years. The majority of clients I have worked with have been challenged by suicide. From thoughts of suicide, known as suicidal ideation, to actively planning a suicide or to having been bereaved by suicide. Although […]
Words from poet Danna Faulds come to mind while reflecting on this new year. “As many times as I forget, catch myself charging forward without even knowing where I’m going, that many times I can make the choice to stop, to breathe, and be, and walk slowly into the mystery”. […]
Noreen Coomey of Transition Coaching and Psychotherapy looks at why men don’t ask for help. When a man does not ask for help with a problem (which he has tried to solve on his own without success) he may end up in one of three places – the hospital, the […]