Client: A client of a professional person or organisation is a person or company that receives a service from them in return for payment. I started studying counselling in 2017. From the outset, I have pondered the noun client to describe a person who seeks or engages in counselling. …

Are you going back to work in that office after weeks of home working? Why are you? — A month ago I started working from home. I have a waged job and working on studying to qualify as a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (CBT). That course involved placement practice hours. Life was so busy and I only felt in downtime energy to avoid doing actual study until the deadline…

Buying an item from a big coffee shop chain can be wrought with ethical dilemma I have been quite loyal to Starbucks. The global market for the coffee shop lifestyle has been pursued by Starbucks with one seemingly on every 2nd city street corner since I first noticed them in…

A few Saturday nights ago I sat through a binge of a lifestyle blogger on YouTube. This YouTuber focuses on unboxing an item, house tours and general flotsam of his life. Watching it is an act of ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response). …

There have been a couple of anniversaries/life events which have brought me to reflect on the importance ofChannel 4 to a young, burgeoning ‘homosexual’ like me in the mid 1980s. I am from a generation that found the UK Channel 4 of the 1980s a channel of liberation and wish that we still had something similar. In today’s media the story is of the self with you the story rather your story through a different lens.

I was awake at 5:15am this morning. The cat was jumping around, scratching at my bedside table then running away when I attempted to stop or placate her; an alternative cat and mouse game where I am the cat and she is the mouse. She wouldn’t let me settle, but…