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When we think of being in danger, the fight/flight response is perhaps the response that most readily comes to mind. Our sympathetic...

I had the pleasure of delivering a workshop recently with some Counselling degree students at Bishop Auckland College. I went to talk to...

Often, what brings clients into therapy is a reticence to experience their feelings. This can show up in all sorts of ways, in low mood...

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 don’t perceive the world as it is, we perceive it as it is useful for us to do so.” Anil Seth in Being You Seth’s recent exploration...

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

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 first consciously came across the phenomenon of my body moving without my deliberate control when I trained in Neuro-Linguistic...

I’m introducing another simple reflection tool today, one I met many moons ago when I trained as a life coach. It’s called a Life Wheel,...

Psychotherapy is intended to be an authentic encounter. An intimate, enabling space in which we as clients can be utterly who we are...

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...

It’s hard to beat the feeling of really being with someone. That feeling of parent and child spontaneously connecting in an experience. ...

I frequently hear people talk about mindfulness as a way to inner peace. I hear it so often I feel compelled to write a little about my...

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...

Before you make a change, it is important to be clear about what the current situation gives you. Remember that odd old phrase ‘don’t...

On a training course a while ago, I heard a metaphor for therapy that I liked. The trainer described the role of a therapist ole as that...

Continuing my series on his model, the sixth stage in Erik Erickson’s model of psychosocial development is that of intimacy and...