How Your Workload Could Burn You Out Emotionally And Physically
Burnout is a problem that many people either face or come very close to facing at some point in their life or career and the numbers are rising...
Defensive Pessimism And How It Can Help You Move Forward
Can you imagine a therapist telling a patient to think negatively ? To concentrate on the less positive aspects of the issues they are having ? Sounds crazy and not too healthy but there are times when this kind of thinking can certainly be justified...
Self-Esteem Is About “Doing” Not “Being”. Increase Your Self-Worth In 5 Easy Steps
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"...
A Self Challenge: Identifying The Parts Of My Own Thinking.
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...
The 7 Day Challenge: Reflections
This will sound a little strange. I often have my best ideas about new posts and podcasts in the middle of the night when it wakes me up and I do my best to remember the detail in the morning...
Depression In The Workplace: Is Your Employer Stepping Up To The Plate?
Sometimes, I am asked by corporate clients to help new managers with the challenges of their new job. Usually, just the basic management tasks can be overwhelming without the added problem of dealing with people and especially ‘difficult’ people...
Identify The Rebel And The Critic And Release The Champion
When I sometimes take the time to analyse my patients at any given point, there are always many codependents among them. This might be because I have had my own issues with this and like to work with them or it might just be an indication of the size of the issue...
Perfectionism Is Truly Driven By Self Defeating Thoughts
Samuel McChord Crothers once wrote "try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labours is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways". Do you feel like what you accomplish is never quite good enough?...
Child Abuse: An Unforgivable Crime
Children are suffering from a hidden epidemic of child abuse and neglect. Every year more than 3 million reports of child abuse are made in the United States alone involving more than 6 million children (a report can include multiple children)...
Life Coaching and Mental Illness: A potential minefield?
I recently read an intriguing article from one of my favourite Psychology Today contributors, Dr David Ley, on the rise of Life Coaching in mental health care. As a psychologist, he balanced the arguments for and against extremely well...
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