Ian Catterall - Person Centred Therapist & Counsellor

19/07/2025

It’s important to be realistic about things - this can be a hard space to reach. Some things it will be hard to feel are not personal.

However an awareness of this, perhaps the ability to let it in a little can be helpful.

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18/07/2025

This is a lot…perhaps too much! I’d likely to say don’t get too caught in categories but it can be interesting to see what feels like you and reflect more individually on why…🙂

12/07/2025

Similar but not the same as a post earlier this week…🙂

11/07/2025

I am absolutely guilty of wanting to show how clever I am - when mostly people just want you to be present. ❤️

09/07/2025

I think these are really useful…there’s an aspect of existential therapy that means you sometimes have to look these things firmly and directly in the eye.

07/07/2025

As usual I’d say this isn’t prescriptive.

Eveyone is different but even if you think about what in each of us these categories - even if it’s things not found in these suggestions - things that might work for you, I think you’ll find it helpful.

03/07/2025

We have more than 30,000 thoughts a day - they can’t all be true or consistent.

29/06/2025

Not sure what the highlighting might be about but this feels true. Many of the expectations others put on us are not necessary. I think more often though they are expectations we believe others put on us even when they don’t.

Either way they can be exceptionally bad for us

25/06/2025

Risk is this might be to be too prescriptive about what things are telling us - we are all somewhat different but might be helpful in reflecting on what your emotions are telling you.

14/06/2025

14/06/2025

Something of a confrontational title and not what I would choose but I think perhaps reflecting on these aspects of life and how we cultivate them might be useful

13/06/2025

This does risk sounding really bad tempered and I guess it was meant as such and of course to be funny.

But also it’s…just true…our ability to truly understand other people is limited. So instead of the judgement that comes from that failure why not give yourself a break - you didn’t fail to understand & rejoice in how different we all are…🙂