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Unconscious contracts bind us to ways of behaving, thinking and feeling that are, mostly, outside our awareness. They are an inexplicit commitment to a duty, a way of thinking, a way of behaving. They challenge us particularly in times of change when we enter new relationships,...

Mummy, Mum, Mother, Mama ….. what responses do these words evoke in us?  Warmth? resentment? Shame?  Our relationship with our mother is arguably the most important of our early lives. It effects how we think about ourselves, how we judge ourselves and  influences how we...

Our experience of our brothers and sisters or our experience of being an only child inevitably impacts on our sense of self, not only as children, but as adults. If you take a moment to ask yourself the question: how was I known in the family? What answer do you get? “The bossy...

So much is written about the importance of the mother/child relationship, the damage that can result from this being troubled, the influence of the attachment in this relationship being brought to bear on future relationships and so on, but, much less is written about the...