by Lesley Lyle | April, 2015 | Positive Psychology
As a counselor, I heard many clients say “I want to be happier, I truly do; I just don’t know what I need to do to get there”. We assume that there is one magic tool that will make us happy in all aspects of our life, but in reality we need to flip that triangle. It...
by Lesley Lyle | April, 2015 | Health
Re-wiring your brain to positive Happiness is not the belief that we don’t need to change – it’s the realisation that we can – Shawn Achor [1] Up until the latter half of the twentieth century, accepted wisdom in psychological circles was that our brains’ wiring is...
by Lesley Lyle | April, 2015 | Relationships
Forgiveness Part 2 In the previous “forgiveness” blog I discussed the process and the influencing factors that make forgiveness such a difficult road in some cases; it is not hard to understand why strength is needed to move us through the journey. The depth to which...
by Lesley Lyle | April, 2015 | Relationships
Forgiveness – Part 1 You may have heard comments like “forgive and forget”, or “just don’t worry about it, be happy; move on”. When it comes to matters of the heart and of the person, it is not always so easy to do that even when we know carrying those negative...
by Lesley Lyle | March, 2015 | self-development
On Friday 20th March I, like millions of others, stopped what I was doing in the morning to witness the partial solar eclipse. The UK hadn’t seen this natural phenomenon since August 1999 and it was attracting a great deal of media attention. Various facts and...