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

I love meditating in company, I experience such a resonance in the collective energy, just remembering brings tingles and smiles. Here’s...

I’m deeply reflective at the moment about the interactive dance that is a therapeutic relationship. Clients come, bringing with them...

Here’s a poetic offering for the weekend, about the insights that can come from therapeutic work and the way just one revelation...

I watched Hannah Gadesby’s show Douglas recently, and along with the many, many laughs she provoked, she spoke of a truth that resonated...

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...

“Be humble because you are made of earth Be noble, for you are made of stars" Serbian Proverb As above, so below. I love this proverb...

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

When I planted my new garden last year, I put a row of floribunda rose bushes along the back fence, anticipating by this year I would be...

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...

look at you. still standing after being knocked down and thrown out. look at you. still growing after being picked and plucked and...

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...

A theme in therapeutic work is the way relationships can rupture and repair. Both for couples, and for individuals, this is often a...

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

I popped into my kids school this week to talk to the Early Years and Key Stage 1 children about Spiritual Practice and Meditation. We...

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

“Healing does not mean wallowing in or identifying with injury. Nor does it mean defensive inaction. It means having the courage to...

Out walking a few weeks ago at Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire, my companion wished the trees could tell us the stories of all they...