Jane Watkins 

Experienced Cognitive Psychotherapist and Specialist Coach for Self-Esteem. Adoring Irish Setter mum and secret letterpress creative! Love design & all things beautiful.

The great storm Eowyn begins.

"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." Joseph Conrad

Feels quite fitting for the current times.

Here in the UK children have a word of the year that is researched by Oxford University Press. The latest one for 2024 is ‘kindness’.

As I write this I think of all the places in the world that are in dark places and kindness must feel so far away.

restacked
If you're tired of being strong

Particularly striking sunrise today. Can't quite work out what the shape reminds me of! This is honestly not a psychotherapy trap, and you can be assured I am not psychoanalytically trained, am genuinely curious as to what you might see in this odd sky?

Not impressed about the Dreamie detox

Hello everyone, am trying something slightly different with yesterdays letter that I sent out.

It is an opportunity for you to reflect on what self-esteem really is. Notice how it changes almost from moment to moment.

It then presents a series of questions. I would invite you to choose the one that resonates with you right now. If you ha…

“If you want evidence that the world is a terrible place, watch the news and surf the web. But if you want to remember how incredible this planet is, go out into nature. Unlike social media and the news, nature has no incentive to keep us agitated, angry and anxious”.

Austin Perimutter

I might add to this, that it may help us remember to look after this planet better so that nature does not turn on us.

Helping women get active, in all sorts of different ways, all abilities, ages and sizes!

I had not heard of this organisation until just now. They help us ladies find ways to get active, not just running as, for me personally, my knees can't cope! It is worth a look. I think what is really nice is how much they help with nervousness som…

Bullying programmes for schools

There is a very interesting bullying programme being rolled out in some schools in England called Kiva from Finland. Bangor University are involved in assisting rolling it out. It holds so much promise. I haven’t done huge research into it, but it is a very different approach in teaching some children to…

Coming in February to Floreo, a month dedicated to understanding our addiction to social media and how to instead, curate your social media usage to give you pleasure and not get in your way.

Coming in February. A month focussed on social media.

We had a lovely snowy dog walkies today, hard to choose one pic, so a few 😊