I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. The last post I wrote on this blog was making the case that people are human in small groups, and that they do things in crowds that they wouldn’t dream of doing to those they know or in a smaller group. Sarah, [...]
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I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is about rejection and how to deal with it. I talk about why we feel rejection so strongly, what we can learn and how we can respond when we feel rejected. It is called, simply, Rejection. Bookmark It Hide Sites $$(‘div.d759′).each( [...]
Image by whiskymac People are social beings. In modern society I find it impossible to imagine how a person could lead an entirely separate existence – even if someone wanted to. And not many of us want to. For most of us our treasured moments are about connecting with others. We want to connect with [...]
This is just to alert you to Albert the UrbanMonk’s third post in the series on love and acceptance. The first is Acceptance and Attention – The Basis of Unconditional Love and Nurturing The second is Unconditional Acceptance for our Totality. This third one is The Obstacles to Mature Love. The obstacles that Albert deals [...]
Just a quick link to a fantastic post by Albert the Urban Monk. Albert’s blog is one that is of consistently high quality. And this post is truly great. He deals with unconditional acceptance and how we could give it. He then deals with really listening and respect. These are big issues and they are [...]
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I have a guest post on the Philosophy, Psychology and Real Life blog. It is about how responsibility tends to be a part of a job. I look at how responsibility is part of the professions and how knowledge affects responsibility – especially in the ‘caring professions’. I then narrow the focus to counselling and [...]
Image by sk8rboi At the moment I am sharing a house with an eight year old (let’s call her ‘Screamer’) and a five year old (let’s call him ‘Kicker’). They are experts at provoking each other. This has led to me dealing with a lot of anger in the last few weeks. (The preference for [...]
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