COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY Archives

Therapy Shorts 61: The Role of Thinking Parts in Mental Health

Explore therapeutic approaches to understanding the mind and personality, focusing on CBT and the multiplicity of thinking parts in recovery.

Therapy Shorts 44: Codependency Is a Terrible Name for a Beautiful Instinct

Therapy Shorts: Now with journalling prompts and therapist take away! This week is about reflecting on codependency. 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.

Therapy Shorts 20 – Codependency Unmasked: Healing the Patterns that Keep You Stuck

This week is about Healing from Codependency. 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.

Therapy Shorts 6: Embrace Individuality in your Relationship

Discover "Therapy Shorts," a collection of quick insights and gentle nudges to help you along your healing journey. This week is about Individuality. 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.

Is Your Partner’s Porn Addiction Affecting Your Relationship?

Men consume pornography for a variety of reasons, including biological, psychological, and societal effects. A strong sex drive, fuelled by testosterone, can result in frequent sexual thoughts and cravings, making pornography an appealing outlet.

Exploring Therapy: Talk vs. Action

In the end, therapy is not just about understanding the past but about creating meaningful change in the present moment. While awareness is a crucial first step, it must be followed by action otherwise, we risk remaining stuck in old patterns.

How to Accept and Overcome Failure Effectively

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing...

I’ve done all the things I tell others to be aware of but that’s good.

As an imperfect human, I have had my share of troubles in all aspects of life including relationships, business and on a personal level: I’ve made decisions and done things that have hurt other people and I haven’t always been the best partner, son, brother, friend or father.

The Good Men Project: Interview with Dr Nicholas Jenner on Codependency Recovery

I recently sat down with Scott Jacobsen from The Good Men Project to talk about my new program for codependents: “ Self Leadership for Codependents”.

Breaking the Cycle of Codependency in Parenting

At its core, codependency forms during childhood, particularly when children are forced to “fix” their environment in order to feel safe or secure.