by admin | Dec 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
**trigger warning/death** For the last year therapy has been really painful. I’m talking painful to the point of where I didn’t want to continue. I want to share a recent breakthrough that I had, and how I got there. It’s about love and boundaries and why maintaining...
by admin | Dec 4, 2020 | Love, Therapy, Uncategorized
I was recently asked if I would write more about what therapy means to me. To be honest, I struggled as I thought about how to begin to do that, which surprised me considering that I have been a qualified counsellor for 15 years. I knew this was because what I really...
by admin | Jul 22, 2020 | Parenting, Uncategorized
If you are a parent of someone who is close too or cares for a child then you’ll know how upsetting and daunting it can be when it comes to mental health issues, especially if we have any worries or concerns. One way we can help our children to deal with what life...
by admin | Oct 14, 2019 | Love
Copyright Maria Albertsen I know only too well the pain and heartbreak that we feel when we say goodbye to our first love, it hurts, big time! For most people this happens in our teenage years or early adulthood, but for some of us it can happen when we’re older...
by admin | Apr 12, 2019 | Love, Marriage
In my almost 40 years of existence I’ve met people from all walks of life, both personally and professionally, and a high percentage of those people are women who have either had affairs and cheated on their husbands or women who have had an affair with a married man....
by admin | Apr 5, 2019 | Empowering women, Heartbreak
To the woman whose man broke her heart. You know that relationships take two people to work, to be there for, to commit to, and to love one another. In the beginning, your relationship felt like this, you gained each other’s trust, opened up and began to love with all...
by admin | Mar 29, 2019 | Childbirth
*Warning – talk of birth, poo and blood – not for the squeamish* It was worth it for these two little brilliant humans <3 When you’re pregnant you hear some stories about poo. People tell you how constipation is a normal part of pregnancy and even...
by admin | Mar 22, 2019 | Empowering women, Perimenopause
Love to dance! In January this year, I turned 39 years old, suddenly aware that next time I’d be 40! I began to think about all of the changes I was experiencing in my body and how I actually felt alone with these because no one had ever told me about what would...
by admin | Mar 8, 2019 | Empowering women, International Women's Day
Maria Albertsen Coach As yet another International Women’s Day arrives I find myself thinking about all of the amazing women I have met over the years. What I know is this; I am yet to meet a woman I admire who hasn’t struggled, who hasn’t dealt with oppression,...
by admin | Mar 7, 2019 | Braveness, Empowering women, Fear
A few weeks ago I posted on my Facebook page about how I was telling fear to fu*k off! Since then a lot of women have contacted me to tell me how much the post has inspired and helped them, so I thought I’d share it here too. You can either click on the Facebook...
by admin | Feb 2, 2019 | Goodbye, Love, Therapy
This is a poem I wrote about a real experience I had in therapy almost 20 years ago during one of our ending sessions. It was with a therapist who helped me a lot and it was hard to say goodbye. Saying Goodbye She looked over at me, a childlike smile spread across her...
by admin | Jan 26, 2019 | Inner child, Love, Tears, Therapy
She sat opposite me with her legs crossed and her head facing down, playing with her hands in her lap. In the moments that passed I could see her eyes start to change, to become moist and dewy. A film of tears began to cover them and formed like pools at the bottom of...
by admin | Jan 11, 2019 | Braveness, Empowering women, Fear, Therapy
Women, I NEED to say something very deep, something that’s been sitting with me for quite a while. Something that is too important NOT to say. So many women I meet are hiding. So many women who have no idea how amazing they are, how utterly fantastic they can...
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