Meam Journey Counselling

24/02/2025

Art is therapy in colour 🎨🖌️💛

22/02/2025

071 278 4099

03/02/2025

30/01/2025

I do face to face
Virtual
And experiential/adventure (music, art, nature walk,and other)
Therapy

27/01/2025

Empty nest syndrome is not what Hollywood makes it out to be.
Most parents, especially mothers, feel a sense of loss, identity crisis and abandonment.

It is extremely important to allow your child to enter guilt free into their launching phase. Creating the person they want to be and finding themselves.

This phase must however be negotiated, boundaries redrawn, and there must be an understanding of the new phases that both the parents and young adult is in. Both parties have different needs.

Some birds do not leave the nest.....and must be motivated towards independance.

Others rip the cord of love and move away without contact.

Some still stay in the house but need more independance and responsibillity, having to negotiate the grey area of young adult under the parents roof.

All of this can be understood and the process supported in therapy

20/01/2025

You've completed school and are now standing at the threshold of an exciting new chapter. As you embark on this journey, you're taking the first steps towards turning your dreams into reality. But then, you're hit with a profound realization: your whole world has expanded, and nothing seems as clear-cut as it once did. You're discovering new aspects of yourself, reassessing your choices, and navigating evolving relationships with friends and family. You're also coming to terms with the fact that your parents are individuals with their own strengths and weaknesses. This pivotal moment in your life may feel unsettling, but it's a necessary step towards growth. Think of it as a plant that's been nurtured and is now ready to be transplanted into new soil. You've got a sense of who you are, but you're still figuring out where you'll take root. As you move forward, you'll continue to need nourishment, guidance, and care. But now, you're actively cultivating your relationships with yourself, your aspirations, your identity, your faith, and your loved ones. It may seem chaotic, but this is a moment of profound transformation, where you get to redefine and rediscover who you are and what you're capable of. You're not just starting anew; you're unleashing your full potential.

13/01/2025

Quantity vs Quality or productivity vs creativity and innovation.

I work with so many people that struggle with burn-out, even though they are in their dream jobs. Doing what they love, or, used to love.

I also work with so many companies that struggle to keep the balance between Quantity vs quality, or productivity vs creativity and innovation. People feel stuck in their dream; it takes the energy out of them and then they are not productive.

In my humble opinion, Quality does not have to be the opposite of Quantity, just as productivity do not have to be the opposite of creativity and innovation.

I tell my clients so many times that time management is important, but energy management is more important. People have different talents, different interests and passions. But a big mistake we make is that we tend to surround ourselves with people we get along with or employ people we like.

When we want a project or a company to thrive, we need to employ people that have a passion and an inclination for the role they need to fill.

Your expert/specialist might be extremely irritated by your project coordinator. If that is the case then both are doing their jobs and fulfilling their passion. The specialist can gladly go down their rabbit hole and get lost in innovation and their area of expertise, dreaming up new ideas and methods, your project coordinator is in their element putting all the pieces together to make the big picture work, liaising with people and keeping to timelines. Both of these people are in their optimal energy space. But the project coordinator keeps the specialist to a timeline, while the specialist teaches the project coordinator some creative people management skills.

We also tend to industrialize or outsource the things we are passionate about just to save time and money, but the expense is our joy. If I can use the movie THE INTERN as an example. The owner of the company needed to employ a CEO as that was draining her energy, but what she really enjoyed was making the products and packaging beautiful. That was where her joy came from

We must also learn new skills and try out new things. I painted my patio furniture today. I was so proud of myself in the end. I did it myself and enjoyed the outcome. This is one of my many therapy areas I have been working on.

Maybe we should rethink the way we approach tasks, outsource what you do not like, but keep what fills you with energy. And remember to take a step back and be proud of yourself. Celebrate your accomplishments

02/01/2025

I had the priveledge to stand in at a wellbeing centre at a well known South African company
The importance of onsite wellbeing centre's cannot be stressed enough.
As a therapist I know and understand that sometimes you just need to talk, that sometimes you need support as you're just not doing well physically and/or emotionally. The priveledge and comfort of seeing someone on-site is amazing.
Companies started acknowledging the importance of Mental Health in the workplace.