Waymaker Therapies

04/09/2024

Deep cleaning day before sessions resume tomorrow…gotta clean these shelves…Mamma Mia!

17/06/2024

Check out the new website! 🎉🥳😁

Welcome to Waymaker Therapies Waymaker Therapies:⦁ Supports children and young people who are experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties through Play Therapy, Children’s Accelerated Trauma Technique (CATT), and Therapeutic Life Story Work.⦁ Empowers parents, foster carers, special g...

01/06/2024

So thankful for my therapy space…summer sessions here we come!

01/06/2024

16/11/2023

https://youtu.be/AKTyPgwfPgg?si=dfHF527zaE2wYuvu

Lots of helpful advice for every relationship

Here’s the science behind happy relationships! Dr. Gottman outlines the findings, tools and techniques that have helped thousands of couples from around the ...

03/11/2023

Just de-tangled a slinky and feeling invincible! 🤣
Back to all the other de-tangling…😊

23/04/2023

Check out this amazing book of short stories! Okay, she’s my mum but she is utterly brilliant!

22/09/2022

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=399507952376046&id=100069505335894

07/07/2022

My Thursday Thought…(when I needed a bit of positive self-talk!)

In Defence of the Optimist.
Try not to criticise yourself, or others, for being an optimist. Don’t dismiss the idealist, the romantic or the dreamer: as if these qualities equate to naivety.

It’s not more insightful to be cynical or wiser to be a pessimist. It’s not hard to find the negative, to see what’s broken, or to know fear in the face of what is thus far unknowable.

If fear guides you, you won’t protect yourself from future pain, only deny yourself potential joy.

Being a true optimist is knowing that there’ll be stinging disappointments, incomprehensible setbacks, debilitating delays, excruciating heartbreak, and inevitable loss, but deciding that what lies beyond all that is worth it.

It’s accepting hope as it relentlessly drags you onward over all your shattered dreams and won’t let you quit. It’s allowing hope to keep working in you until it helps you build a better vision.

Optimism is not a talisman against depression: the degree to which you feel both may be a measure of the dissonance between this world and eternity.

So, nurture optimism: set high standards, have ideals, be a visionary, have tenacious hope.

Welcome the glass half-full but keep seeking the one that’s overflowing.