The last number of blogs have concerned anxiety, how it manifests and some of it’s effects on us. This blog will look at ways we learn to manage our anxiety. Self awareness As I have alluded to in blogs before, getting to learn our patterns, seeing what our triggers are is the first step towards […]

Anxiety has many reasons for appearing and once people start considering how they are thinking, feeling and behaving, they can usually identify where the anxiety started to emerge In order to manage the consequences of anxiety (the behaviours, feelings and thoughts), we must address them explicitly and then, in order to sustain our ability to […]

Some anxieties are very distressing and they can take on affects that severely hamper our participating in life. The person experiencing the anxiety can feel like they have no control over how they are feeling or behaving. This blog piece will further develop the component elements of anxiety, how they impact each other and how […]

I will spend the next couple of blogs considering anxiety and how we can learn how to meet it, understand it and live well with it. Anxiety is known to all of us. It can have a positive impact, ‘healthy anxiety’, in that it acts as a drive or a motivation to do something and […]

There is an art to waiting. It is an exercise in itself and one that is not often merited or considered important any longer in life’s business. It also features greatly within supporting our mental health. There is a relationship between work and patience, it is a fine balance. As with the harvest, the knowledge […]

The last post addressed some of the fears we might face when considering looking into our experiences and how they might affect us. This post will consider the advantages to inner reflection and how it can have a positive and long lasting impact on our lives. Capturing our reactions to everyday events is as important […]

This post will examine the challenges faced by many of us regarding what might happen if we journey inwards. From my experience in life and as a psychotherapist, the need to look inwards is often what brings us to therapy but can also be the greatest block or hindrance once we arrive. When we arrive […]

When we consider spring what ideas come to mind? It’s a beautiful season, one of energy, renewal, growth and emergence. How can we absorb the symbolism of spring into our lives? How does it enter the space of psychotherapy? Reflect a moment on the passing of time. There has been a season of darkness and […]

My last post was interested in the relationship we have with our body. This is a question that may be elusive and quite challenging if we have not considered it before. There is a wondrous journey to be embarked upon if we take time to consider our body as part of the whole of our […]

What’s your relationship to your body? Some find that question very puzzling. The interesting charge with posing that idea is that thinking is not sufficient in answering. We must enter inwards and familiarise ourselves with that which is often removed from our awareness. This is quite a challenge. It is a sad reality of our […]