Feeling Fantastic this fine predawn morning. Coffee

it is cloudy here and raining, i like it. very relaxing..
will carry on watching my movie.

my site-side is fed-up with fake users. they must be having serious character problems to behave like this !!

ahah the sun came up, at the same moment a thunder accompanied. very exciting :D hope the lightenings will follow in the evening so that i can keep my curtains wide open and watch them :)

A little stressed. I was taking my son to school this morning and backed into my daughter's car, then had to cancel my morning doctor appt. Oh well. **** happens.

Im feeling a little flustered... Every site that I have visited via the library's internet says those sites are unsecured... GRR...

Lets get a cup of coffee...

So freaking happy that I could be there for my daughter when she phoned me from the States, totally frustrated, upset and angry with her hubby.

And also incredibly happy that I've learnt so much about how to communicate with men, or rather; how NOT to communicate with men, over the past year and a half or so.
I could give her real sound advice and when she hung up, she had calmed down.
So fingers crossed she and her hubby will be able to tackle the problem in a civilized matter when he gets home.

It is a bit of a Crystal Coaching night a friend on my forum PMed me as well, totally upset about her ex.

I'm on a roll here, but please, two per night is enough! I was happily watching Star Trek ya know!
This is NOT an invite to PM me. If you do, I will charge you, lol.

yep..kinda what I have been thinking lately

oh I give my oldest son and daughter in law advice all the time
but only when asked

thinking I might need to start charging others though

beginning to feel like a sponge that is getting squeezed too much

Good as usual

Thanks for asking.

Yeah, I know the feeling!
It got less / better when I started doing what you also mention: only when asked.
And when they are strangers, I keep it short and sweet.
When I was still doing my coaching & counselling study, I had to practice so needed real clients. And lucky me, I got the counselling ppl, and if there's one thing I really really don't like, it's counselling.
I'm a coach. Short and sweet and working with people that are motivated or can be motivated. Brief cases, I cannot work with ppl that need eternal help. Just not my thing. They drain me, because I give a lot, and I also don't have the patience for it, as I simply cannot understand that someone doesn't have the resilience to bounce back. May be a flaw in me, lol.

mmmmm...lot of people show up for counseling with questionable motives

they might be there because someone else suggested it
such as their mother, sister or they were dragged in the door by their spouse

they are not sure about this psycho babble stuff and are suspicious and Leary from the get-go..

worse yet are the court mandated ones who have to be there each week


its kind of like AA
in order to address the issues
ya first have to be able to actually admit

that ya have a few
that are interfering with or influencing you life, your decisions, your relationships and over all well being

but it is client driven meaning they are the ones who decide what to work on and you as the counselor help them to develop goals and a plan of action


counseling is a luxury so often times the people coming in have money, nice homes and drive nice cars

unless you work for the state in which case you may be working with people that live in poverty

Feeling perfect this fine morning.

exteremely happy that i had my turkish delihghts yummyyy
and my fav tv series is beginning an hour later
oley !!

Think over here it's different. Counseling can be gotten for free (national healthcare system), whereas coaching is never free. So coaching could be considered a luxury. There are quite a lot of coaches here these days, running their own practice.
Counseling and coaching are not the same thing.

I'm not even sure a court would and could make it mandatory for someone to see counselor. Possibly when it's child related (we have different, specialized judges etc. for child-related things), but in other cases where someone is a complete wacko, it would be a psychologist or psychiatrist.

Anywho, I'm a coach, not a counselor.

Not sure what I feel.
Heartbroken for my kids who cry because they miss their dad.
Hopeful that he's out of state and I can start moving on without being abused.
Angry that he cant even see how much his kids love him or just doesn't care.

((( RCB )))

hi stormy

Hiya RCB...

Exhausted... Come ON 7AM EST...

coffee time <3

half water half milk of course !