Lynne Woolfson-

13/08/2023

06/06/2022

Lovely quote by Emerson.

13/09/2021

The root of all health is in the brain
The trunk of it is in emotion
The branches and leaves are the body
The flower of health blooms
When all parts work together
Kurdish Folk Wisdom

07/09/2021

The 4 horsemen to the apocalypse of relationships! Contempt, stonewalling, defensiveness and criticism. All relationships are tough, but according to relationship guru Dr.John Gottman the secret is how to “fight” well by avoiding these 4 pitfalls.

The way you fight with your partner is a tell-tale sign of how your relationship is going. Learn how to navigate conflict in a healthy way.

06/09/2021

Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!”
— Viktor E. Frankl

19/08/2021

"Piglet?" said Pooh.

"Yes?" said Piglet.

"I'm scared," said Pooh.

For a moment, there was silence.

"Would you like to talk about it?" asked Piglet, when Pooh didn't appear to be saying anything further.

"I'm just so scared," blurted out Pooh.

"So anxious. Because I don't feel like things are getting any better. If anything, I feel like they might be getting worse. People are angry, because they're so scared, and they're turning on one another, and there seems to be no clear plan out of here, and I worry about my friends and the people I love, and I wish SO much that I could give them all a hug, and oh, Piglet! I am so scared, and I cannot tell you how much I wish it wasn't so."

Piglet was thoughtful, as he looked out at the blue of the skies, peeping between the branches of the trees in the Hundred Acre Wood, and listened to his friend.

"I'm here," he said, simply. "I hear you, Pooh. And I'm here."

For a moment, Pooh was perplexed.

"But... aren't you going to tell me not to be so silly? That I should stop getting myself into a state and pull myself together? That it's hard for everyone right now?"

"No," said Piglet, quite decisively. "No, I am very much not going to do any of those things."

"But-" said Pooh.

"I can't change the world right now," continued Piglet. "And I am not going to patronise you with platitudes about how everything will be okay, because I don't know that.

"What I can do, though, Pooh, is that I can make sure that you know that I am here. And that I will always be here, to listen; and to support you; and for you to know that you are heard.

"I can't make those Anxious Feelings go away, not really.

"But I can promise you that, all the time I have breath left in my body...you won't ever need to feel those Anxious Feelings alone."

And it was a strange thing, because even as Piglet said that, Pooh could feel some of those Anxious Feelings start to loosen their grip on him; could feel one or two of them start to slither away into the forest, cowed by his friend, who sat there stolidly next to him.

Pooh thought he had never been more grateful to have Piglet in his life.

15/07/2021

This poem is so good.
Freud called it the repetition compulsion. We tend to repeat behaviors over and over to try get a different t result.
But as Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting a different t result!

23/06/2021

Such wisdom. Post traumatic growth is possible. A small snippet of two brilliant minds conversing. Dr. Gabor Mate and Dr. Dianne Poole Heller.

16/06/2021

Can you can find 7 people and a cat in the photo?

14/06/2021