Personal Growth
Why Won’t My Therapist Just Tell Me What To Do
As a therapist, my clients often ask me, “Why won’t you just tell me what to do?’ It’s a valid question, and I can understand
March 20, 2023
My Blog Posts
Personal Growth
Breaking the Cycle: How Reparenting Can Help You Overcome Childhood Trauma
Reparenting is a therapeutic approach that involves addressing and healing childhood wounds by taking on the role of a nurturing and supportive parent to oneself.
March 16, 2023
Personal Growth
Unlocking Emotional Healing: A Guide to Inner Child Work in Therapy
Inner child work is a powerful tool in therapy that can help individuals heal from past traumas and improve their emotional well-being. In this blog
March 16, 2023
Personal Growth
Overcoming Perfectionism: Embracing Imperfection and Finding Balance
Do you often find yourself striving for perfection, only to be left feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and never quite satisfied with your achievements? If so, you’re
March 16, 2023
Personal Growth
Coping with Loneliness: Strategies for Feeling Connected and Supported
Loneliness is a common experience that affects people of all ages, races, and backgrounds. It’s a feeling of disconnection from others, and it can be
March 16, 2023
Inspiration and Motivation
The Importance of Boundaries: Setting Limits to Improve Your Mental Health
As human beings, we are social creatures. We thrive on connection and interaction with others. However, sometimes we can find ourselves feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and
March 15, 2023
Inspiration and Motivation
The Benefits of Therapy: How Counselling Can Improve Your Life
We all face challenges in life, whether it’s stress from work, relationship issues, or mental health struggles. Sometimes, it can be challenging to deal with
March 15, 2023
Inspiration and Motivation
The Power of Positive Affirmations: How to Rewire Your Brain for Success
Positive affirmations are a powerful tool for creating change in your life. By repeating affirmations regularly, you can rewire your brain to focus on the
March 15, 2023
Inspiration and Motivation
How do you find the best therapist for you?
Finding the right therapist can be a challenging process, but it is crucial to achieving meaningful progress in your mental health journey. Here are some
March 15, 2023
Inspiration and Motivation
Overcoming the fear associated with starting therapy
Overcoming the fear of starting therapy can be a daunting task, but it’s an important step towards improving your mental health and overall well-being. In
March 15, 2023
Inspiration and Motivation
The Journey
Something in me gets a bit triggered when I hear someone talk about their ‘journey’. I don’t know what it is, it just seems a
July 27, 2022
Personal Growth
Words have power: the stigma of labelling mental illness
Labelling mental health and mental illness, and applying those labels to people living with mental health conditions – or even people who are just experiencing
May 4, 2022
Personal Growth
The psychology of conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories are as old as time, but it’s only in more recent years that psychologists have begun to unravel the belief that some people
May 3, 2022
Personal Growth
Beating depression with magic mushrooms
It’s kind of amazing that something that must have been a terrifying discovery back a long time ago when someone accidentally ate the wrong kind of mushroom
May 1, 2022
Personal Growth
Smacking a child may affect their brain development
You just know that smacking children is going to get a response. Everyone has an opinion on this, and because of the nature of it,
May 1, 2022
Personal Growth
Nobody is more resilient than anyone else.
At least, nobody is naturally more resilient than anyone else. Resilience can be built and fostered, when needed, and the more resilient we are, the more resilient
February 4, 2022
Inspiration and Motivation
There is no such thing as an addictive personality.
Do you know someone who has an ‘addictive personality’? Or have you ever said that you have an addictive personality? Maybe they (or you) just can’t seem
February 1, 2022
Personal Growth
Magical thinking
Magical thinking is one of the many kinds of unhelpful thinking that can bring us undone and stop our growth and progression towards being the
July 4, 2020
Personal Growth
Finding Strength
Finding strength is hard at the best of times, but in THESE time, when leaders and leadership seem missing, how do we find our own
June 1, 2020
Personal Growth
Let go of fear and doubt
Fear is a very motivating thing. And, particularly for people who are co-dependent or don’t feel like they should be at the top of their
May 23, 2020
Personal Growth
What CAN we do?
One of the funny things about being human is that, for a lot of us, our default position has become something less than positive. Sometimes,
May 17, 2020
Personal Growth
People are good.
Humans are funny old things.
On the one hand, we are pretty non-compliant. We tend to, largely, not really go along with what we are asked to do, and we are even less likely to do what we are told to do. If that weren’t true, there would be no need for police, or even laws for that matter.
March 26, 2020
Personal Growth
How to make space for growth
I talk a lot about growth, for one very good reason: I think a lot about growth. Whether it’s personal growth or business growth, I think that it is such an important aim for all of us to keep growing, keep changing and, hopefully, keep improving ourselves.
March 10, 2020
Personal Growth
Meeting My Inner Child
Part of my treatment in rehab included a 5-day intensive workshop that was designed to root out the cause of my dysfunctional behaviour as an adult, by starting to heal the damage to my inner child.
February 18, 2020
Personal Growth
The best sentence to ask someone if you want an honest answer.
We ask each other a lot of meaningless and trivial questions throughout every day: “How are you?” “How was your night?” “How’s the family?” Nothing sinister, sure, but how many times do we ask those questions because we are
February 15, 2020
Personal Growth
The 11 people to rid your life of (and never be)
Humans are fine. I mean, really, most of them are amazing. Humans can show me love and empathy and kindness and generosity and humility and
January 21, 2020
