Lydia Nicholson Therapy

19/06/2025

20/04/2025

Beautiful blessings and wisdom regardless of your beliefs 🙏🏻 Indeed, life is short and worthy of treasuring

EASTER BLESSINGS

"On this Easter morning, let us look again at the lives we have been so generously given and let us let fall away the useless baggage that we carry -- old pains, old habits, old ways of seeing and feeling -- and let us have the courage to begin again. Life is very short, and we are no sooner here than it is time to depart again, and we should use to the full the time that we still have.

We don't realize all the good we can do. A kind, encouraging word or helping hand can bring many a person through dark valleys in their lives. We weren't put here to make money or to acquire status or reputation. We were sent here to search for the light of Easter in our hearts, and when we find it we are meant to give it away generously.

May the spirit and light of this Easter morning and the special spirit and light of this abbey at Corcomroe bless us all, watch over us and protect us on our journey, open us from the darkness into the light of peace and hope and transfiguration."

JOHN O'DONOHUE
Dawn Mass Reflections at Corcomroe Abbey

Excerpt from his books: Walking in Wonder (US) / Walking on the Pastures of Wonder (UK)
https://johnodonohue.com/

Dawn at Corcomroe Abbey
County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

16/02/2025

I’m not everyone’s cup of tea, for sure. This is a great reminder to try and let go of needing to be liked.

As a counsellor I’m not everyone’s preferred flavour of therapist. Shop around, do some taste testing before you decide which therapist is best for you.

YOU CAN’T BE EVERYONE’S CUP OF TEA

There will always be someone in this life who just doesn’t like you, no matter how hard you try to please them.
There will always be something that you say, or do, which causes offence or division.
Whether you meant to or not.
There will always be someone who finds fault in you, your life or your words.
You may never find out why, please don’t waste your precious time trying to.

You can’t be everyone’s cup of tea.

Then there will be those who like you on impact.
A little fizz of energy that passes between you.
Silently, unseen, bonding.
Those people will not only like you but they will like you fiercely.
They are your people.
Whatever spare time you have, spend it on them.

You can’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but you can be someone’s first sip of a cold drink on a sunny day…

Or a warming hot chocolate when you come in from the rain
or the pop of a long awaited champagne cork
or a stiff shot of tequila when things go awry

Find your people,
love them hard.

Donna Ashworth
from ‘to the women’ just released as a celebratory new version, with 70 new poems ❤️ : https://amzn.eu/d/f75763G

Art by IRA WHITTAKER

14/01/2025

A poignant reminder when we find ourselves caught up in discussions and debates that only serve to punish ourselves.

We can always choose 🦉

Fable: DON'T ARGUE WITH DONKEYS

The donkey said to the tiger:

- "The grass is blue".

The tiger replied:

- "No, the grass is green."

The discussion heated up, and the two decided to submit him to arbitration, and for this they went before the lion, the King of the Jungle.

Already before reaching the forest clearing, where the lion was sitting on his throne, the donkey began to shout:

- "His Highness, is it true that the grass is blue?".

The lion replied:

- "True, the grass is blue."

The donkey hurried and continued:

- "The tiger disagrees with me and contradicts and annoys me, please punish him."

The king then declared:

- "The tiger will be punished with 5 years of silence."

The donkey jumped cheerfully and went on his way, content and repeating:

- "The Grass Is Blue"...

The tiger accepted his punishment, but before he asked the lion:

- "Your Majesty, why have you punished me?, after all, the grass is green."

The lion replied:

- "In fact, the grass is green."

The tiger asked:
- "So why are you punishing me?".

The lion replied:

- "That has nothing to do with the question of whether the grass is blue or green.

The punishment is because it is not possible for a brave and intelligent creature like you to waste time arguing with a donkey, and on top of that come and bother me with that question."

The worst waste of time is arguing with the fool and fanatic who does not care about truth or reality, but only the victory of his beliefs and illusions. Never waste time on arguments that don't make sense...

There are people who, no matter how much evidence and evidence we present to them, are not in the capacity to understand, and others are blinded by ego, hatred and resentment, and all they want is to be right even if they are not.

When ignorance screams, intelligence is silent. Your peace and quiet are worth more. ❤️

24/12/2024

Christmas is not always an easy time for everyone. Some tips for a gentler Christmas from Dr Kathryn Mannix

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BD4ivbjG1/

17/12/2024

Wow! What powerful and true words. During my life, I have often been surprised and wondered as to why it was NOW that I was ready to change even though I had had all the same information for a long time. Readiness cannot be forced but we can TRUST that it will come when the time is right.

10/11/2024

13/04/2024

Sunrise, every day is a blessing 🙏🏻 filled with hope and possibility