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Like anything, we are energy and we are matter. This means that we naturally pick up energy as we go about our lives, from the people...

There are so many times when you hear 'positive thinking' being used as a way to shut out, minimise, deny or avoid uncomfortable truths. ...

Oh dear, it’s well and truly winter. The season of hunkering down and withdrawing within while the winds howl, the temperatures drop,...

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just to take the first step” Martin Luther King I love this quote, it speaks eloquently of...

I’ve made a few changes in my office lately, increasing my level of physical comfort when I am working. I’m noticing a significant...

“We are imperfect because we are alive” Matt Haig In the Comfort Book, Matt Haig reflects on the reality that we are a mess, and the...

Happy Samhain! According to Pagan tradition, today we celebrate the ending of the summer and look forward to the coming winter. ...

“Recognising the difference between power and love is difficult if we were raised in a home where power was disguised as love” Marion...

There is a truth I learned way back in my training that has stuck with me and I wanted to reflect on today. It is the reflection that if...

Today I want to talk about dissociation, and ways of supporting yourself in coming back into connection when you feel you have detached....

I remember coming across the idea of your heart smiling in Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Eat, Pray, Love, at the time it really lit me up. ...

Sometimes life circumstances become very difficult in a way that is not going to quickly resolve itself. I'm thinking of situations like...

Our relationship with our self is the most important one we work on in psychotherapy, given our self-relations inform all of our...

I wanted to reflect today on the nature of feeling, which is understandably a recurrent and important theme in therapeutic work. It’s a...

I've been writing recently about regulating your nervous system to be grounded and calm to give yourself the flexibility to feel and...

For therapeutic work to be successful, clients need to be feeling regulated, in other words they need to be calm and relaxed, so that...

One of the key jobs of therapeutic work is to help clients to be able to calm their nervous system so that their default way of being...

Today I wanted to blog about increasing vagal tone. The vagus nerves are the longest in our body, and play a key role in the...

The difference between Trauma and Developmental Trauma is one that I often find myself explaining to clients. We can be traumatized by a...

In recent months I have been delving into Brown and Elliott’s comprehensive book about Attachment Disturbances in Adults. It’s a...