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Do you work to live or living to work? Has work taken over your life? I saw this headline in the Sydney Morning Herald on 8/6/2017. “Workers treated like slaves.” Work gets fairly crazy this time of year. Is your work getting you down? The term ‘slave...

How to humour your therapy shit? This blog is a lighthearted look at how we get into a mess and out of it again! Yes, it’s a ‘tongue in cheek,’ sort of funny blog post because sometimes it’s useful not to take everything so seriously!  It’s really...

 The winds still blow in Sydney and across Australia. Snow now falls on the mountain peaks. I see the summits in the cloud formations scudding across the sky in Sydney. I found this wondrous poem by the ancient, eccentric Zen Buddhist monk, seer and poet, Ryokan. (1758–1831). He...

We live in a world now where we expect instant solutions for everything. The faster the better. We are constantly wooed by the glittering possibility that we can have whatever we want and immediate pleasure is available to us. However, all that glitters is not gold. Are instant...

The Tao Te Ching. Lao Tzu. Chapter 1 The essence of the Tao cannot be spoken. Words and speech can only take us to a certain point. In order to step through the doorway into the secret mysteries of the Universe, we need to go beyond our thinking mind into the essence or absolute...

Sherry Marshall, Process Oriented Therapist and Relationships Counsellor was interviewed by the Australian Sydney Morning Herald newspaper on how to beat stress on 14/3/2014. Part of her interview is included in this article here. While stress can either hinder or help us, we...

Commuting could be making you miserable – especially if you catch the bus. Sherry Marshall, Sydney therapist and relationships counsellor who specializes in Process Oriented Psychology and author of ‘A Search for Meaning, Connecting with Buddhist Teachers’ is...

This new E. book, A Search for Meaning, Connecting with Buddhist Teachers has been published from a paperbook edition (Simon and Schuster) to an E. book on Amazon, Smashwords and Apple. To BUY THE BOOK, scroll to the end of the article  for website links.  It makes great reading...

What enchants us, I wonder? I came across the phrase, ‘Objects of Enchantment’ this week. It’s used by architects when, for example, they put a feature like an amazing water fountain in a garden. It ‘flirted’ with me, as we say in Process Psychology ie. it unexpectedly and...

Emotional Swings and Roundabouts; Being Happier with Sherry Marshall. Sherry is a Sydney process therapist, counsellor and relationships therapist. We would like to feel happy but often we have emotional swings and roundabouts. Our emotions swing up and down and round and round....