Nurture Your Inner Critic
There are a range of books that tell us how to deal with our family of inner critics. Most centre on mantras and progressively aggressive language to deal with them...
The Pandemic Is Causing Stress And Anxiety But The US Has An Added Element
Read any serious newspaper and you will hear stories of how the pandemic is affecting lives to the extent that you could believe quite rightly that life will never be the same again. People are losing their lives, their livelihoods, their businesses, their finances and their sense of purpose...
Anxiety: The Facts
Many of the clients I deal with in my online therapy practice suffer from anxiety. Anxiety is the disorder of our modern times and the amount of people suffering from it is increasing every year...
Take A Moment To Be Mindful
We spend much of our time in our heads, thinking about the past or worrying about the future. We interact with others and feel triggered and we are often tied to past events and relationships in our mind...
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There is Only One Moment To Live
Dreaming about the future is part of who we are. We are apparently the only species who has the ability to do this (that we know of). It gives us…
A Sense Of Humour Helps In Enforced Isolation
I come from a country where the 'stiff upper lip' and 'wartime spirit' are very much part of the national psyche...
The Week That Was: Notes From Forced Isolation
I work from home and even under the best of conditions, rarely go out apart from the one day I call my weekend... usually Saturday. Then I either go walking…
Codependency: “Me Time” Is An Essential Part Of Any Relationship
Many people feel threatened when their partner asks for "space". The immediate thought might be that they are ending the relationship or it is heading in the wrong direction...
Mindful Acceptance Leads To Self-Compassion
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments...