Welcome to Therapy Shorts: small moments of reflection to help you steady yourself in a world that never stops moving. I’m Dr Nicholas Jenner, and in each of these brief episodes, we’ll take a simple idea and look at how it actually plays out in real life… in your relationships, your choices, and the way you speak to yourself.
We convince ourselves that we are fine. We keep busy, distract ourselves, and on we go. Yet deep down, we know we are stuck, and all the escape in the world won’t change that. We are stuck in patterns, habits and stories we tell ourselves.
Healing happens in both modern therapy and in indigenous tradition when meaning is restored, when we remember that we are not isolated problems to be fixed but participants in a bigger story. All of which is relevant.
Fear sabotages and it goes about it’s business in a quiet way. It doesn’t scream in our ears, it whispers quiet logic at us. It tells us to wait, to think about it, to be “realistic”. It parades itself as “wisdom”, but more often, it is self-protection.
This week is about Break Ups.
These posts, published twice per week with a short audio, provide bite-sized wisdom to help you grow and discover yourself. Join me as we investigate the small ways we can bring peace, clarity, and connection into our lives.
Although it’s commonly believed that transference only occurs in therapeutic settings, it actually occurs in all types of relationships. The unconscious act of bringing expectations, feelings, and experiences from the past into the present is the fundamental component of transference.
While adults may find this arrangement appealing, the picture becomes significantly less clear when children are involved. Adults can rationalize their decisions, justify them as practical, and even find them liberating, but children interpret relationship patterns very differently.
This week is about Healing from Narcissism.
These posts, published twice per week with a short audio, provide bite-sized wisdom to help you grow and discover yourself. Join me as we investigate the small ways we can bring peace, clarity, and connection into our lives.
This week is about Personal Growth.
These posts, published twice per week with a short audio, provide bite-sized wisdom to help you grow and discover yourself. Join me as we investigate the small ways we can bring peace, clarity, and connection into our lives.
There is no perfect parent and everyone will make mistakes along the way. Parents who are in tune with the accepted developmental stages of cognitive growth their children might go through, might be best placed to coach them through.
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