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I came across this little sentence today - it was pinned up in a window display - and it made me think. Of course, it has an immediate meani...

At any given time, we are faced with a choice, whether we realise it or not: We can either  protect ourselves from harm, pain, risk  or turn...

I was travelling recently and over the course of a few days my right foot started to hurt, quite badly, even when I was just lying down. I d...

For a long time now, I have resisted the idea that my body is anything other than the "carrier" for my brain. My credo was always ...

The latest theory about depression links it to excessive inflammation in the body (which is also what happens in certain autoimmune disease...

In my experience, there are two types of people - the ones who prioritise time, and the ones who prioritise money - but what neither seem to...

This article is about how we can change the way an argument goes, and its outcome. Most of the time when we are dissatisfied with the way so...

I have mentioned before how our world view is strongly influenced by our focus:   Look for dangers, see the dangers. Look for wonderful thi...

Have you ever wondered about the difference between fear and anxiety? Apart from the vague feeling that one doesn't last as long as the ...

Welcome to my latest theory - that we are all like 3-legged dogs. Let me explain. We go through life thinking that people have got a pretty ...

I often hear complaints about how "men don't listen" both by friends and clients and when I question what exactly happened a f...

We all have ways to soothe our anxieties away - some more healthy than others. For some it's about interrupting it through physical stim...

For those of you who have been reading my blog for a while, you might remember how I have likened our mental space to a garden , and psychot...

Here we are, the world as we know it doesn't exist anymore - no more travel, no more restaurants, and no more school! Hopefully this i...

I've been wondering why it has become so difficult lately for me to write new articles for this blog. I have plenty of ideas, subjects...

Odds you are reading this on your phone right now. And as much as I am pleased that my writings find an audience, I am also scared by the...

"So, what do you do?" Most of the times when I answer "I'm a Psychotherapist" to that question, I get a puzzled lo...

Vicarious trauma in short is the trauma that you experience hearing or seeing someone else's trauma. It shows up with similar symptoms ...

No, this is not a "state the obvious" blog post - it's not about seeing what you look at. It is about how our focus includes ...

Surely you have also wondered how depression is a mental illness when pretty much everyone sometimes suffers from feeling down or depressed,...

In the wake of the #metoo movement, light has been thrown on different definitions of rape - clearly the legal fraternity has a different on...

Have you ever wondered what helps make therapy successful? Which are the main tools, the modalities, the therapist training that mean you w...

"You spot it, you got it" basically sums up the relationship of us noticing something in someone else (usually something we'r...

One day, when my father was still in his 20s, he was walking in Berlin, and upon coming across a man in an overcoat thought to himself ...

Empathy has been one of those popular buzzwords lately, like compassion or  mindfulness , but it often gets confused with its cousin sympat...

Are you starting to get that feeling? Christmas around the corner, and still so much to plan, to do, to buy? What about the seating plan? ...

I have previously written about resentment and the harm it does to those who hold on to it and I just love the definition AA uses: "...

As I have previously written, there is a great difference between festive alcohol and drug consumption and the use of them as chemical crut...