One Year Older, One Year Wiser About Life
Explore the journey to simplicity and self-discovery, reflecting on life lessons learned through relationships and personal growth.
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...
What Is The Inner Child?
I do a lot of inner child work with very interesting results. Touching the part of our emotional memory that has been locked away for years, can be a powerful, enlightening experience...
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...
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...
How Childhood Abuse Can Subdue The Inner Child
When we think about child abuse, our thoughts often stop at sexual abuse of minors. However, the term child abuse...
The Mental Torment of Sexually Abused Children
It is estimated that up to fifty percent of sexual abuse victims who receive medical treatment after episodes of abuse carry no physical scars at all...
Getting Through that “Black Cloud” Day
You know the feeling, everything you touch, say, plan or think goes wrong and you wonder why you got out of bed that morning...
Writing Your Life Story Can Help Bring Perspective
When we look at our lives within a process of change, we tend to open up a lot of boxes, some of which have been closed tightly for many years...
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