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...
How Discrimination And Stigma Impede Mental Health Treatment
When I was young, my family would often travel to a nearby town to visit family friends. As a child, it was not my favorite pastime and I often felt forced to play with the kids in the family which at that age was a chore...
Re-parenting your Inner Child
We have seen clearly in my previous set of posts how an inner critic is formed from the defence mechanisms used by the wounded, criticised child and how these can be taken forward into adulthood...
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...
With Narcissists, Action Always Speaks Louder Than Words
When we start a new relationship, we let a few things go that we might not later. We don't always set boundaries or recognise so-called 'red flags'. The adrenaline is just running too high and that is just the way we want it...
Treat Codependency Like Any Other Addiction
A recent study in Australia stated that up to 240 million people worldwide are addicted to something...
Narcissist Abuse: Being Hooked By The Illusion
You are swept away in a tide of emotional abandon with a seemingly like-minded person who only has your interests at heart. You fall in love fully and completely, you drop your boundaries and do not listen to your instincts that might hold some warning signs...
Think Talking to Your Therapist Online Is A Fad?… Think Again
It is now roughly 10 years since I saw my first client online. I remember it as clear as day. Sitting in my office waiting for my two o'clock appointment...
Choose Contentment
There are many things that determine our lives for better or worse. Parents play a huge role of course, our environment, influences, relationships and peers also play a part...
Recognise Your Inner Critic And How It Works
The concept of an inner critic is well known but most people have to deal with more than one manifestation...
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