Managing Your Emotions
Managing your emotions can be tricky particularly when you have never been taught how best to do this. If you cannot manage or understand your own emotions it stands to reason that it’s going to be a challenge trying to manage the emotions of others. Try managing a resistant teenager, a two year olds meltdown, […]
Spotting the Signs of Emotional Abuse
Spotting the signs of emotional abuse can be difficult if you are living with it every day. You can be unwittingly drawn in to making yourself responsible for the abuser’s behaviour. You don’t want to be upsetting them or hold them accountable so you do what you can to keep them ‘happy’. This may mean […]
Self-Sabotage
Understanding the concept of self-sabotage and how triggers work to keep us feeling stuck is key in helping us move forwards and improve our life. Our subconscious mind is a stunningly powerful information processor which records all our life experiences. It can play these back to us at any moment by the simple push […]
Destructive Mind Games
It seems it has always been the case that people are brought up with no understanding of how to communicate openly and honestly. From their experience they come to learn that communicating in this way doesn’t get them what they want. Instead, what they do learn, unwittingly, is how to play mind games which serves […]
Feeling lazy or un-motivated?
Every one of us is born with high self-esteem but it unwittingly gets knocked out of us as we grow up and it makes us appear lazy and unmotivated. It’s interesting to note how much harder it is to transplant and nurture the seeds of high self-esteem and motivation into children. On the other hand, […]
Arguing again?
If you find yourself arguing again and again your relationship could be in deep trouble. Everyone has them from time to time but if arguments start to dominate, relationships will be eroded and start breaking down. It’s a myth that only dysfunctional couples need relationship therapy. Here’s what you need to know… It’s often the […]
Addiction
When we talk about addiction we usually think in terms of street drugs, alcohol, smoking, sex and gambling but there are many others. These particular addictions are typically judged to be anti-social on some level. We can’t understand why people choose to participate in these destructive habits. In some instances they can indeed be very […]
Perception, Values, Priorities
When our perception of our own value and self-worth is low we are less likely to prioritise our own mental health and general well-being. Mental health is not something you can hold in your hand and say ‘look here it is, this is the source of my suffering, what can I do about it?’ It […]
Relationship in difficulty? Read this!
Do you feel like your relationship is in difficulty? There could be 101 causes for the difficulties in your relationship of course but what we may describe as causes are generally only the symptoms. Affairs, anger issues, arguments, disrespect, neglect, blame, physical or verbal abuse and ignoring each other are a few common symptoms of […]