Choosing a Therapist – Where to Start?
Deciding to talk about a problem can be scary... Then there's the problem of actually choosing a counsellor, where do you start? Here's some help.
The Talking Cure – Why It’s Good to Talk
At some point in our lives we can all benefit from talking to someone outside our family or friends about something that is troubling us. But how to go about finding someone? This articles outlines some popular schools of therapy and gives pointers on how to go about choosing a therapist.
Manage Your Anger or It Will Manage You
Anger need not be a problem, though it often is. Aristotle said "Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy". Controlling anger is a choice, but not one that is easy to make when we are angry. Decisions have to be made while in a different mindset, which means either reprogramming...
You CAN Protect Your Mental Wellbeing
These are trying times so take positive action to take care of your emotional and psychological health, you could be at risk
Workplace Relationships Can Make or Break your Day
Human relationships are like an organisation's DNA. The quality of the relationships affects everything from levels of motivation and trust to overall performance. Poor working relationships, on the other hand, are huge contributor to under-performance, unnecessary running costs, staff turnover and more. Despite the vital importance of how people interact at work peoples' relationships in most organisations get no attention, until something goes wrong.
How Writing Can Help Clear Your Mind
Writing serves fulfils many functions. Some can be arduous, others fun. What's often overlooked is how writing can bring benefits to the inner self. It doesn't matter how or when you do it, as long as it is regular and uncluttered by demand or expectation. Writing awakens creativity and many possibilities besides.
Depression’s a Bugger!
Depression deserves our disdain. It responds to the right treatment, yet we continue to treat it with outdated methods.
How a Personal Ritual Helps with Loss, Change and Growth
Keeping separation and loss alive can be more damaging in the long term than the events themselves. There's merit in the idea that while we should rightly honour the past, we must also be willing to welcome the future. A ritual can do both, simultaneously.
The Career Guidance Nobody Gave You
Pretty well every week I get questions relating to choosing the 'right' path to a career, or tension about how to prepare. If this is you, then maybe some alternative viewpoints can help give you pause for thought. In my latest podcast episode I'm sharing some ideas on what can loosely be called, Alternative Career Guidance.
