by Sue Plumtree | Aug 19, 2021 | Uncategorised
How Can I Be Happy? When a client first comes to me they ask me, “How can I be happy?” Most of them want to resolve some relationship issue, usually but not always with their partner. The reason I love working with relationship issues is that I often...
by Sue Plumtree | Aug 13, 2021 | Uncategorised
First, a caveat: When I say that risks are worth taking, I mean considered risks, not rash or impulsive ones. To me, the riskier and scarier ones are emotional risks. Those are the ones that make us break out in a cold sweat just thinking of it. The thing that marks...
by Sue Plumtree | Jul 29, 2021 | Uncategorised
A while back I was interviewed by The Telegraph for their new weekly section in The Telegraph Magazine called ‘Change of Life’. The interview was for a first-person feature about somebody who had experienced a significant life change in later years. Leaving my...
by Sue Plumtree | Jul 29, 2021 | Uncategorised
Telling the truth has a bad press and most of us spend a lot of time agonizing about whether or not to tell someone the truth as we see it. The fact is that there’s only person we need to tell the truth to: ourselves. You may find this hard to believe but, actually,...
by Sue Plumtree | Jul 23, 2021 | Uncategorised
One question I’m often asked is why I stayed in my marriage as long as I did. 37 years is a long time by any measure so why did I stay? As I’m sure you know, there are no simple answers but I’ll try. The first thought that comes to mind was that I was unable to admit...
by Sue Plumtree | Jul 12, 2021 | Uncategorised
Have you noticed the flood of talks and articles about managing stress? That’s probably because stress has become so widespread as to be almost regarded as normal. “What! You’re not stressed?!?! What’s wrong with you!?!?” I’m only half joking. It really is that...
