The CP Diary

I’m not sure how long I was in counselling, before I decided to come out of counselling. I had literally got to the stage where something just wasn’t working for me.

The tools I needed to help me deal with my issues weren’t happening, so talking didn’t help. To some extent talking made me more frustrated. After years of counselling, I came to realise it was …

Excuses are reasons we create to defend the way we behave, to avoid taking action on something we should be dealing with. Excuses are simply a means of negating responsibility.

We can either continue to make excuses, or we can put things right and get our lives back on track. We’d rather talk ourselves into making excuses, than deal with what we know is the truth. We make …

Something inspirational:

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

RUMI

I don’t know whether anyone else has memory of the Sunday evening blues, but it seemed very real to me, when I was little. At the time I never understood why by Sunday evening I was beginning to feel so miserable.

After initial research, I found out it’s all to do with a combination of the weekend coming to an end, with the anticipation of 5 days of pressure until the weekend again. Unfortunately, work and school …

The Queen’s speech on Christmas Day was about how we reflect on our lives and reflection has brought me to this place.

I am where I am because of consequences of the decisions made for me, rather than by me. I’ve been swept along and was expected to conform completely. It’s a bizarre concept to think that I have …

Something inspirational:

“Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It’s lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It’s higher thought and a greater plan. It’s glorious dream in the soul of man.”

WILFRED A. PETERSON (The Art of Living)

Thank you to everyone who has supported The CP Diary site and my Facebook page over the year. Thank you also to everyone who has read my blogs. Without all of your love and support The CP Diary wouldn’t be the success it is. I hope you ALL have a Merry Christmas …

Never having had any concrete support, I wasn’t sure how I would feel when it came to losing both parents.

As the weeks passed, I began to ask myself whether it was easier letting go of losing both parents, because there had never been any emotional support in place. I believe it is. That when we have …

We have a bad day, not because someone is irritating us, but because we feel bad. That’s because the feelings we have that arise out of conflict are often tied to unconscious thoughts, not yet realised that continue to block our awareness of the bigger picture.

If we were to unravel what goes on behind our unconscious thoughts, we would understand why we’re in conflict with ourselves and why what we feel generally has nothing to do with anyone else …

Christmas Gingerbread

Another festive treat!

Ingredients:

100g butter

100g dark brown sugar …