I love Nicholas Cage films (Con Air - amirite?) except when I don’t; good and bad Cage films is a subject too vast for me to begin to address here. But Pig had really good reviews and Cage said it was one of his finest performances so I thought we should give it a go. […]
unsplash-logoEdwin Hooper Hands up who’s struggling at the moment? I’ve been doing fairly well in coronavirus isolation so far, being a proud introvert not socialising is the norm for me and I’m generally happy with my own company but today has threatened to break me a bit. The children are starting to get bored and […]
Someone asked me the other day why I became a counsellor, no one had asked me before, in fact not many people talk to me about counselling, maybe they are worried I will analyse them and dig out their secrets (I won’t!). I didn’t always want to be a counsellor, when I was a child […]
By now you have probably heard of this art installation "84 Men" by Marc Jenkins at the ITV studios on the South Bank in London. It represents the 84 men who end their life each week in the UK. Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 45, this is still shocking to me no […]
So I missed World Mental Health day this year because I was ill, physically but even though I’m a couple of days late I really wanted to talk about high functioning depression precisely because there is a lack of understanding and awareness of it even from people experiencing it. It flies under the radar, affecting […]
Apparently when I was a child I used to cry at the opening credits of ‘Lassie’ I must have seen it often enough to know that it would break my little preschool heart and I just did what was natural, I expressed my emotions. But somewhere along the way as I grew up I learned […]
A student once asked his teacher “Master what is enlightenment?” The teacher replied “Eat when hungry, sleep when tired” (Disclaimer: Though I may be filled with wisdom I am not a Zen Buddhist and this story is largely open to interpretation, we can take as little or as much from it as we choose to.) […]