self-compassion – Via Vitae Counselling | Lindsay Cox-Prior

22nd March 2021 Lindsay Cox-Prior

Letting go

I’ve always found the concept uncomfortable- what exactly are you letting go of? People tell you to ‘let go, you’ve gotta let go…’ OK, how? People never tell you how it’s done or how to go about doing it, but they expect you to be able to. If it...

4th February 2021 Lindsay Cox-Prior

Time to Talk Day has arrived! 4 February 2021

It’s Time to Talk day on 4 February! A day I support each year. I’ve be suggesting one thing everyday this week over on the Facebook page for Via Vitae Counselling that you can do to support either yourself or someone else this week...

24th December 2020 Lindsay Cox-Prior

Reflections

Every week we have read how hard the year has been with the virus and its huge impact on the world. There isn’t much more I can add to how horrendously it has impacted upon day-to-day life and the things we perhaps previously took for granted...

9th December 2020 Lindsay Cox-Prior

December self-care

For many of us it’s been a tough time with family members perhaps in differing tiers to us, lockdown number 2 and a general sense of enough is enough, yet still mustering the energy to keep safe and keep healthy by following the guidelines...

10th November 2020 Lindsay Cox-Prior

World Kindness Day 13 November 2020

World Kindness Day started in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement. Originally formed at a Tokyo conference in 1997 borne out of the Japanese bringing together multiple nations to emphasize the need for global kindness. Currently, over 28...

27th October 2020 Lindsay Cox-Prior

Loneliness, isolation and not liking your own company

Have you found yourself lately with a lot of time to yourself: Maybe when the kids went to back to school? Maybe you’re working remotely and missing a team environment? Maybe you were shielding and the experience of spending time with yourself...

29th September 2020 Lindsay Cox-Prior

Changing Gloom to Bloom

Do you find yourself sometimes stuck in a particular pattern of thinking then find that overall, your mood isn’t where you’d like it to be? Gloom sets in and everything else also seems gloomy, therefore it can be hard to see the way forward. As a...

27th July 2020 Lindsay Cox-Prior

Juggling life roles: self-care

The balancing of life roles can be tricky, but it is possible to resolve a lot of daily stresses by taking some action. In the previous 2 blogs we looked at juggling life roles and also looked at home schooling whilst working from home. With...

12th May 2020 Lindsay Cox-Prior

Bringing it back to you

Half-asleep this morning I clicked into Pinterest to look for inspiration. The first thing that came up was: ‘You are the greatest expert on you, so why do you crumble when someone comments on you, when they haven’t lived your life?’ This...

29th April 2020 Lindsay Cox-Prior

Failure

It’s not a word we like to engage with. There’s been a tendency to raise children and young adults achieve, to win, to be competitive, to get the best grades, reach our ambitions at a young age, and I say all this under the caveat that upbringing...

22nd April 2020 Lindsay Cox-Prior

Can counselling help me?

When you think about the words Counselling or Counsellor, what does that bring up for you? The old-fashioned view of Freud with his couch? A professional with spectacles resting precariously on the tip of their nose? A lot of personal questions...

7th April 2020 Lindsay Cox-Prior

Am I doing enough?

I’ve found the last few days in particular a bit challenging; perhaps it’s the work that I do or the head-space I find myself in at this particular time but it seems the uncertainty and the realities are hitting me now: now I have more reflection...

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