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A colleague described beautifully to me the other day the power of unspoken communication in families. You know…the looks. The sighs. ...

Today is thought to be Blue Monday, the combination of short days, poor weather and the aftermath of the festive season with the distance...

“Trauma represents a profound compression of “survival” energy, energy that has not been able to complete its meaningful course of...

People are generally familiar with the idea that when someone dies, we grieve. There are many ways of describing the process grief might...

Sometimes it is easy to lose trust in what you are experiencing. It may be that someone else somehow undermines you, convincing you that...

When people come into therapy to talk about relationship problems, they often feel that there must be something wrong with them. This is...

There are two key questions that many clients want to address when they come for an initial session of psychotherapy, and they are...

I’ve had the pleasure of making some new connections personally and professionally in recent weeks, which has felt good after the...

The opposite of repression and suppression is not expression, its awareness. I heard Andrew Seubert make this excellent observation in a...

I was invited recently to be playful with my elbows, to explore what it’s like to really put them out and take up some space. I confess...

We all need some pressure in our lives, it can be stimulating and energising, and help us achieve more than we would if we were never...

I was listening to Andrew Seubert recently talking about The Courage To Feel. I liked the way he described feelings, as embodied...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and trauma responses, are often thought of as being dramatic and invasive. We most often think of people...

As I read more of Anil Seth’s book Being You, I reflect more and more on the way we are continually making sense of what happens to us,...

Every now and again I put together a short digest of the posts that have seemed to resonate with people, and send it out to my subscriber...

I often blog about self-help techniques and approaches those interested can use to support their well-being and emotional health. I like...

I want to talk today about a simple tool you can use to increase your awareness of how the relationships in your life impact your...

Today I’ve reached the final stage of Erik Erikson’s model of psychosocial development, that of later adulthood, which he suggested...

Almost at the end of my series on Erik Erikson’s model of psychosocial development, today I am exploring the seventh stage, that of...

I was reminded recently of the contrast between feeling that I had some control over what happened to me, and of feeling as if life was...