Laura How

Laura How

My name is Laura and I have been a counsellor since 2011. I am also a happy wife, mother, exercise enthusiast and personal growth fanatic.

How to Detox Your Life

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Clearing Away Things That Don’t Serve You “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.”  — C. Joy Bell If you want to live to your fullest potential, you…

How to be a Good Partner

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Are You a Good Partner? Everyone wants a good partner. Are you one? What would your partner say? There seems to be a lot of talk nowadays about bad partners. Everybody seems to have one. No good women, no good…

Tell The Truth

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“You know, in the deepest part of your heart, that when you don’t tell the truth, the world falls apart.” ―Jordan B. Peterson. Honesty is good for your mental health Tell the truth. Like the fabric of your existence depends…

Avoiding Relationship Breakdown

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“Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine Investigating Problems Consistently and skilfully explore the problems you have as a couple and as individuals together, as they arise. If you…

Good Relationship Habits

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“What comes easy won’t last long, and what lasts long won’t come easy.” —​ Francis Kong​ The End of The Honeymoon PHASE When it comes to our physical health, we know that prevention is better than cure. We know that…

The Art of Self-Regulation

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A Love Story. Learning the Art of Self-Regulation. “We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.” – Harville Hendrix Dysfunctional childhoods often lead to emotional dysregulation in children and adults.  Conversely,…

Developing Inner Strength

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“… the point to my life is my growth or strengthening and (this) lies not merely in expanding but in ascending, which involves overcoming previous states of myself.“ – John Richardson Forward Motion It occurred to me recently, when walking…

Doing ‘The Work’

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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle Self Knowledge What is your relationship with yourself like? I ask many clients this question as it often occurs to me early on in our working relationship that people don’t…

Start Complimenting Your Partner

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“If you see something beautiful in someone, speak it.” ― Ruthie Lindsey Love is Action It seems to me; most people nowadays think that happy couples are somehow lucky. That they perhaps managed to find ‘the one’ and that the seemingly…

Stop Blaming Your Partner

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“The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower My parents told us, my sister, brother and I, that they were getting a divorce when I was eleven years old. My world immediately fell…