About Paul Parkin

Paul Parkin is an online counsellor, therapist and life coach. He is passionate about helping people reach their full potential and providing affordable online counselling to people everywhere via his counselling website Counsellors Online. Paul has worked as an online counsellor for the past 20 years and has worked in several counselling settings, including - National Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) the NHS. North East Council on Addictions (NECA) and Several telephone helplines including the Samaritans. Read other blog posts.

How To Be Happy

By |2023-06-16T22:44:22+01:00December 28, 2012|Inspirational Stories|

Perhaps above all, be as healthy as you can. Nothing is more valuable than your health, emotional and physical, little is more likely to make you unhappy than ill-health. Most fundamentally, recognise that happiness is a state of mind and not something which can be defined objectively. You can change your state of mind in many ways. More importantly than [...]

Footprints In The Sand

By |2023-06-16T22:44:22+01:00December 28, 2012|Inspirational Stories|

One night a man had a dream. He dreamed He was walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from sis life. For each scene He noticed two sets of footprints in the sand.,one belonging to him and the other to the Lord. When the last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked back [...]

Can Dreams Come True

By |2023-06-16T22:44:23+01:00December 28, 2012|Inspirational Stories|

Virtually no competition. While professional soccer is still struggling to find a firm foothold in the United States, in the 1970s the North American Soccer League marked the brave first attempt to introduce the game to American sports fans. While most teams had only limited success at best, one did manage to break through to genuine mainstream popularity the New [...]

Create Heaven on Earth

By |2023-06-16T22:44:23+01:00December 28, 2012|Inspirational Stories|

Chopsticks A woman who had worked all her life to bring about good was granted one wish: "Before I die let me visit both hell and heaven." her wish was granted.... She was whisked off to a great banqueting hall. The tables were piled high with delicious food and drink. Around the tables sat miserable, starving people as wretched as [...]

Children are like Kites

By |2023-06-16T22:44:24+01:00December 28, 2012|Inspirational Stories|

We spend years trying to get them off the ground. We run with them until you are both breathless. They crash ... they hit the roof , we patch, comfort and assure them that someday they will fly. Finally, they are airborne. They need more string, and we keep letting it out. They tug, and with each twist of the twine, [...]

Boomerangs and Love

By |2023-06-16T22:44:24+01:00December 28, 2012|Inspirational Stories|

Boomerangs and Love. I drew my arm back and with a flick of the wrist let the boomerang fly. It was out of my control. To an observer it may have appeared to be attached to a string I held, for it banked to the left and carved out a circle heading back towards me. As it got closer it [...]

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