Thoughts and Feelings Aren’t Facts
This is important to realise when reflecting moment to moment, why am I feeling or thinking the way I am? It gets even more complicated if what we are thinking and feeling, is some
Living Life by Our Values
Every day we make choices which affect the way we feel about ourselves and the world around us. It is amazing when we break them down, how often we make choices based on the opinio
Why has nobody told me this before? – Dr Julie Smith
Dr Julie Smith is a psychologist who came to appreciate how valuable therapy can be for people, but was equally frustrated that this knowledge wasn’t readily attainable for t
Safe Space in Therapy
It is so important that wherever therapy takes place, it is somewhere that you feel physically and emotionally safe. Felt good today with a client at the UKCN centre in Drighlingto
“What is grief, if not love persevering?” – The Vision, Wandavision
Wandavision is a series set in the Marvel cinematic Universe, about a woman with extraordinary powers and abilities, cope with the grief of losing someone she loved. The show explo
How my inner child feels, matters. You might struggle to hear its voice, but it’s there.
Children’s mental health awareness week has had me reflecting on what I wish I knew about mental health. We might experience things and assume that time has dealt with the st
Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet
“Keep allowing yourself the human privilege of mistakes. Be less robot, more human. Be more imperfect. Evolution happens through mistakes.” I read this book a few month
Talk
Things have seemed heavy to me lately. When that happens I try and remember what tools I have that’ll keep me afloat until either circumstances calm down, or I adapt and deve