About me and this website
My name is Georgie and I am just emerging from a dark and difficult time that has lasted roughly 15 years. Finally, I feel I’m making some serious progress in spring cleaning my life and I built this website to share my experience, in the hope that it can help someone else.
To give you a brief outline of my history: my parents divorced when I was three and I saw my father only intermittently after that. I went to boarding school from 12 to 18 (which I hated) and on to Manchester University (which I loved).
After a couple of rather stressful years working in London and a couple of wonderful years working in Milan, I returned to Manchester in 1995. I was full of confidence and expected to build a good life for myself but instead I sank into a depression, caused by the break-up of a relationship and not being able to find a job. I felt restless and futile.
I have tried all sorts of things to sort myself out. I’ve had homeopathy, shiatsu, reflexology and aromatherapy; as well as life coaching, counselling, hypnoanalysis and psychotherapy. I learnt something from all of them but nothing came close to providing the ‘cure’ I was longing for. Psychotherapy did the most for me and I was inspired to train as a therapist myself. I have practised very little but what I learnt about and through transactional analysis has given me great insight and the emotional equipment I need to spring clean my life.