Self help suggestions for everyday and not so everyday difficulties and feelings.
Faking and pretending – feelings, knowledge, status and more. We all do it, for different reasons, at different times in our lives. Sometimes it feels necessary. At other times we are risking our integrity. How to fake well? I wonder [READ MORE]
Mindfulness? You can be forgiven for thinking everybody is talking about it, and everybody is doing it. Everybody but you. And you may think it is not something for you. Not so. Let me explain. 1. What is mindfulness? [READ MORE]
“You have got to pull yourself together”. That was a general comment I made in a conversation a little while ago. I was told, perhaps tongue in cheek, that this doesn’t sound like something a therapist would say. Really? I [READ MORE]
Summer depression is real. Depression can happen anytime, even in the spring and summer time. What to do? It is not uncommon to feel unusually down, anxious or depressed leading up to or during the spring and summer season. Why may we [READ MORE]
Depression is not a sign of weakness or failure. It is human, and under certain conditions can happen to us all. It can be mild or severe. It can change, come and go. We may feel afraid and ashamed. One event taught me how not to fear depression. [READ MORE]
Tragedies happening around us – near or far away – attacks, murders, terror, hate, fear, helplessness … they all can affect us emotionally. And we need to take care. Your daily routine may be ordinary and predictable. Yet on some days [READ MORE]
Not knowing what to say? Why do we tend to turn this into a problem? How about honouring our feeling and realising this does not stop us from being with the other in a way that is helpful and meaningful, for us both? [READ MORE]
For many of us, these are frightening times. Whoever you are, where ever you live, there will be something of concern to you. Here are 10 steps to help you through. [READ MORE]
News anxiety is not uncommon. The word can be a frightening place. That’s what I am told by a lot of people who have quit news. I have not stopped listening to the news, but I have changed the way I [READ MORE]
Inner balance can be a mystery. We all need it. And we all want it. Yet, often we think it is beyond our reach. 1. What is inner balance? Often we can tell, when we have not got it. When [READ MORE]
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