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I remember when I first heard about the positive benefits of being grateful. It was more years ago than I care to count, when positive...

"Love enables us to see things that cannot be seen without love. The eyes of compassion are also the eyes of understanding. To practice...

I’ve been reflecting this week on the power of kindness. Many times I sit with clients who seem to have a huge capacity to care, and do...

As the days get warmer, and plants large and small come out into full bloom, I've been feeling a yearning to be outside, to be out in...

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What...

Were you raised for autonomy or raised for loyalty? Esther Perel posed this insightful question recently, and it struck a chord with me....

How surely gravity’s law strong as an ocean current, takes hold of even the smallest thing and pulls it toward the heart of the world...

'I think, therefore I am' is a saying you will hear much quoted. These words, written by the french philosopher Descartes, perhaps sum...

I've had many experiences in recent months of doing familiar things with someone unfamiliar. It has been interesting to notice the shift...

This idea is an often quoted pre-supposition from neuro-linguistic modelling. It's also good old common sense, around for aeons before...

There can be many reasons that we tend to solve our own problems, and to do so on our own. Perhaps life has turned out so far in a way...

I’ve noticed of late a pattern in the client work I am doing, clients so often know what it is they need to do to help themselves feel...

"There's no law against my listening to this thrush beyond the barn, the song so loud it echoes like a bell, then, it's further off...

It’s easy to forget the importance of the way that we relate to ourselves. So much of the time we focus on relationships with others -...

​In generations gone by, people often learned from other people, perhaps by sitting with a colleague who was doing something, and then...

From time to time, I meet clients whose thinking is no longer free-flowing. They are caught in a repeating pattern of the same thoughts...

We are born to relate. Our brains require relationship in order to make connections and grow, being raised without human contact we...

Being a psychotherapist is a wonderfully tough job. Many clients come to us because they are no longer able to contain what is happening...

Sometimes, we make decisions that we believe are right for us, yet we later wonder what we were thinking. How can this be? There are of...

It’s common to hear people say 'she made me feel...' or 'he leaves me...' when talking about feelings. While it's sometimes a short hand...