Drug problems

By |2023-06-16T22:38:03+01:00March 19, 2013|Counsellors Online Blog|

Drug Problems My son is now 33 years old and has been injecting ‘Mcat’ (methadrone) no to be confused with methadone for about a year and a half now. He has always experimented with drugs and alcohol but this latest adventure was going to kill him if I didn’t intervene. I live in France and decided that I should ask [...]

Why Writing is so Therapeutic

By |2023-06-16T22:38:03+01:00March 3, 2013|Counsellors Online Blog|

There is something about writing, whether it be using a pen and paper . as it has been done for thousands of years, or one of the widely available array of technical tools so easily found today. The fact is that writing something is more permanent, the words cannot be lost so easily as the spoken word. We can read [...]

Life Lessons

By |2023-06-16T22:38:04+01:00March 2, 2013|Real People - Real Stories|

Married at 17, would I listen, do any of us at that age? Well here I was a single mum with two beautiful girls. At aged 24 and after a terrible divorce, an illness which nearly claimed my life and not knowing where my life was going, they say time is a great healer, I think time just eases the [...]

Surviving – It’s a Journey Forever

By |2023-06-16T22:38:05+01:00March 1, 2013|Real People - Real Stories|

My survival journey started the day that 'choice' was taken from me.  At the age of Fourteen I was sexually assaulted by 2 people that I thought of as “friends” from that day I have struggled to trust people. At 14 we all think we are street wise and that we can take care of ourselves.  We all make poor choices, we [...]

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