Goal setting for 2018 Looking to this new year and thinking about the goals we set up.  Where does the inspiration come from, meditating, freeing up our vision by sitting on the beach, written in sand? How often do we set the financial goals and forget about the emotional side, the study side?  Where do [...]

Emergency numbers and discussion: This is an amazing site (below) and not just for small communities; let’s face it most of us are part of a very small community even when in a larger environment like a city.  There is some great advice here, very practical and probably the sort of list every home should [...]

Thank you Dr Seuss, who knew there was such wisdom there.  What a question or a realisation that many of us are waiting, waiting – for what?   An excerpt from: “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” “…… The Waiting Place… For people just waiting. Waiting for a train to go Or a bus to come, or [...]

To realise the value of one year – ask a student who has failed an exam. To realise the value of nine months – ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn. To realise the value of one month – ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby. To realise the [...]

Like many things, the first step in the journey is the one necessary to get us moving along a journey that often takes a road of its own. So here is the very first blog associated with The Forum, Amanda Mitchell Counselling. Choices the ones we make or not. When we question our choices [...]