On Not Trying to Control What Comes Through
What abstract painting and the unconscious taught me about action, receptivity and relinquishing predetermined meaning Over the last year, I have been learning how to paint. Occasionally during the process of making a painting, I have had the experience that I can only describe as ‘something else at work’. I am not talking about […]
When the Good Enough Mother Goes Wrong
Neuroscience and neurobiology are now confirming what we know in our hearts to be true. That the role of the ‘good enough’ mother in the infants first 3 yrs of life is crucial in right hemisphere brain formation. Development of self This attunement that generally happens between mother and infant in the first few months [...]
Is it really ‘never too late to have a happy childhood’?
“it’s never too late to have a happy childhood.” It’s an old adage from neurolinguistic programming (NLP), and it was Richard Bandler, the co-founder of NLP, who said it. It was controversial at the time; and of course we are entering the realms of magical thinking if we think we can change the past. We cannot [...]