07/08/2026
Guess what……..
In therapy I will applause, celebrate and feel proud of you!
Today we went to the circus.
My daughter, looked around halfway through the performance and said,
“Why aren’t people clapping much? They’re having fun… why aren’t they showing them that?”
(She also compared her Nan to Madge from Benidorm… so she certainly was not short of observations today)
But she was right.
It made me think…
We don’t applaud each other enough and that includes ourselves.
In my therapy room I will say, “I’m proud of you” - I know 🫣controversial little toad that I am!
Not because you’ve suddenly become ‘perfect’, but because I know how much courage it takes to walk through the door, to be honest, to talk about things that only the depths of your soul have been privy to, to keep showing up, to try something different, to sit with difficult feelings…… all of it!
Tiny wins.
Big wins.
Wins that do not feel like wins.
The almost-gave-up-but-didn’t wins.
The boundaries.
The breakthroughs.
The setbacks that still ended with you trying again - or not, hell I’ll celebrate the fact you’ve noticed that!
I also ask my clients, “Are you proud of yourself?” For many people, that’s actually the harder question.
If praise makes you uncomfortable, don’t worry… we’ll explore that too.
So yeah, let’s do this 💪🏼
Louise 🎪 🎈 x
