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Ever felt that something that you’ve experienced or that was done to you is holding you back? Forgiveness is giving up a grievance, which you are entitled to. It doesn’t mean forgetting or reconciliation; it doesn’t mean condoning, it’s not about justice and doesn’t make what happened ok.

A relationship is something to take care with, protect and nurture. Whether you have been together 5 months or 50 years care should still be taken. Indeed, the longer one has been in the relationship the more complacent one might become and hence nearly imperceptibly drift apart.

We can have a situation which triggers an emotion. For example, someone says something to you which makes you feel a certain way, eg, your boyfriend says you look fat in your jeans and you feel upset. Now, the interesting thing is, we tend to think the current situation is the issue. And upon introspecting a little further, we usually find it is not...

Why does talking about something sometimese make you feel better about it and sometimes worse? Peter Campbell explores the neurolinguistic roots of successful counselling.

The other day, I received an email from one of my clients who said she realised that she was not talking to her inner child because she was feeling resistance and felt uncomfortable while talking to her inner child. So, she stopped. And that meant, she didn't get to feel good. It was as though a light bulb went off in her mind, as she realised that she was listening to her feelings instead of being a strong and conscious person who could take charge of her thoughts.

If illness is a random mistake, how do you know what therapeutic intervention to engage in? Believe it or not, despite tremendous advances in modern medicine, the real cause of illness is often unknown. But how do you know what treatment to follow or recommend if you have no idea what has caused the problem and if symptoms are just a random occurrence?....

Do you know of people despairing on the brink of a relationship break-up? Now there is hope of reconciliation and renewal of that old love.

While Bach Flower Remedies are able to work will all other treatments, supporting them where necessary, there are many advantages to using Bach Flower Remedies over other types of treatments. With diagnosis made by emotions and negative soul qualities Bach Flower Remedies work directly with the body’s energy system often times avoiding unnecessary physical illness.

Change your thoughts, change your life.

Are you a great sleeper - able to put your head down, and doze off easily? It is said to be the gift of the angels! Yet you may have times in your life when sleep doesn’t come so easily. You may have a one of these types of sleeping issues : • Dropping off to sleep ok, but waking with thoughts going around in their head and then you can’t get back to sleep. • Not being able to drop off well at all - and when you do it is on and off with wakeful times.

Over the past five months we have been under considerable stress in Christchurch as a result of the constant aftershocks. The latest quake on February 22 seems to be the final straw for many. Much of the central city is destroyed and there has been an exodus from Christchurch. Those that remain are burdened with the clean up and the costs: financial, material and emotional.

What Book has made the most powerful difference in my life? I was struggling with understanding the concept of me being the creator of my reality; that I create my own happiness, my own health, my luck, and my misery. This was a totally new idea and didn't sit well with me. Until then I had thought that life was about being lucky, was "in the stars", DNA or 'fate'. Life was what happened to me and I had no hand in it. Then someone suggested I read "You Can Heal Your Life" by Louise L. Hay.