Society has come such a long way since I was brought up in the 80’s. My mum was a stay-at-home mum and I remember her …
Blogs from Clinicians
Valentines Day is a bit Marmite* isn’t it?
By Kaye, Clinical Supervisor, Relate Bradford & Leeds People either love it or hate it. So what about you? Is it circled in your calendar …
My Voice Matters
By Vasile Burlacu Childhood can be complicated, many things are happening at the same time and you want, are asked, or are required to …
“Mental health boils down to one word: hope.”
Wise words there, from former US First Lady, Rosalynn Carter. If we have purpose, we have meaning in our lives. If we have hope, we …
Openly enthusiastic about Relate…
Anyone that knows me will know just how much I owe in life, to my time at Relate. On Relate Bradford, and now Leeds, 75th …
A lot has happened in 75 years…
Lifestyles and choices have changed enormously. But maybe our fundamental emotional needs haven’t. 75 years ago gender roles were fixed and rigid. That was reflected …
Happy Birthday RB&L…75 years of helping people build better relationships…even with themselves…
I will start by wishing ‘Happy Birthday’ to our amazing organisation, Relate Bradford & Leeds. An organisation, that adopted me firstly as a student in …
Only one place sprung to mind for relationship counselling, so I applied to Relate, as soon as I’d graduated…
When I was in college studying to be a counsellor, our teacher went around the room one day and asked us all individually where we …
It was Relate’s long history and highly respected expertise that first got me into counselling!
Five or six years ago when I was deciding to retrain as a counsellor, I thought ‘who shall I train with?’ So I did a …
Over-thinking?
Do you berate yourself for over-thinking? You’re not alone. There’s a bit of an over-thinking epidemic going on. A kind of epidemic…of thinking…that thinking…is a …