Be Kind To Your Internal Family And Gain Access To The Self
There are a range of books that tell us how to deal with our Internal family of thinking parts. Most centre on mantras and progressively aggressive language to deal with them...
There are a range of books that tell us how to deal with our Internal family of thinking parts. Most centre on mantras and progressively aggressive language to deal with them...
When we think about child abuse, our thoughts often stop at sexual abuse of minors. However, the term child abuse, often replaced by child maltreatment, has a broad spectrum of definition...
If you are a codependent and have children of your own, then there is a better than average chance that the codependent tendencies you have, will be passed down through a dysfunctional parenting...
It is wrong to assume that if codependency is identified as an issue, the person concerned is codependent with everyone in his or her life...
I once read something that has stuck with me for many years. It went something like "there is no success or failure in life... just success and learning opportunities"...
Change is never easy but we face it every day. For some it is a terrifying experience, for others an opportunity. We all, see it, feel it and deal with in in different ways. How we see it, feel it and deal with it will generally determine how difficult it will be...
Self-esteem is a big issue for all of us and we could all do with more. In therapy, it is one of the most sought after goals that clients put on their wish list. "I need to increase my self-esteem"...
I have been quite active lately promoting the use of tools and methods to challenge and potentially overcome blocks in thinking that keep one stuck in the proverbial "hamster wheel" of inaction and overthinking...
Many therapeutic approaches deal with our thinking as a major part of the work needed to recover from our ills. CBT, especially, doesn't look at events but how our perception of the event affects us...
I have written quite a lot lately about reaching a point where change is possible, moving forward is possible and it just takes that step or choice to make it happen...