Take Your Internal Family To A Safe Place
In my last post, I talked about the value of meeting a "younger self" in visualisation. I said and believe that this is an emotional but worthwhile step in trying to come to terms with childhood trauma...
Meeting Your Younger Self Tells You All You Need To Know
While doing inner child work with clients, I often run them through a guided visualisation where they meet and greet a younger version of themselves...
Soothing Our “Child Part” Will Keep The Narcissist At Bay
I have worked with codependents for many years and have witnessed first-hand the devastation that occurs when a cruel, self-centred individual breezes in and out of their life...
Narcissist Abuse: Being Hooked By The Illusion
As humans, we have a never-ending ability to see the good in others. We forgive, we forget, we give the benefit of the doubt...
Conditioning Can Be Changed But It Takes Hard Work And Awareness
A client who has been coming to therapy for quite some time, recently had a revelation where she finally realised that her family had conditioned her as a child to believe that she needed to behave in a certain way...
Dealing With Life’s Small (And Not So Small) Setbacks
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...
6 Ways To Get Over A Bad Break Up 4 to 6
Continuing my post on moving on from a bad breakup, let's look at steps 4 to 6...
Those Who Say Can’t Usually Mean Won’t
How many times have you heard someone say “I can’t change”? If you are like me, you have heard it many times. In most cases, what is really being said is “I won’t change”…
The Narcissist-Codependent Dance
Among my patient group (and circle of friends), there are people who continually allow others to take advantage of them, continue to give and stay in very toxic relationships. They attempt to make themselves indispensable for their partners (and everyone else) and become the local and family martyr...
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)...
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