Do You Fear Your Prejudices?

How we deal with prejudice in our own lives, at an individual level, makes all the difference to the impact we have on society at large. Tags: empathy, ethics, person-centred, responsibility, society, violence

Posted on: 22 May 2019 | 4:09 am

What Will We Leave Behind?

How much of you do the people closest to you really know? What do they understand of the person that you are, as something distinct from the things you do? And when the time comes, inevitably, will your story die with you, or will it remain with your friends, your spouse, your children? Tags: bereavement, death, existentialism, meaning, parenting and children, relationships

Posted on: 17 April 2019 | 8:30 am

When Great Ideas Become Lead Weights

Here are five ways to help preserve the life and growth of a good idea when circumstances mean we can't follow it up right now, ways to stop it becoming just another weighty addition on a "to do" list. Tags: creativity, mindful awareness, writing

Posted on: 25 March 2019 | 4:50 am

Practitioners, How Good is Your Referral Tracking?

Almost every mental health practitioner tries in some way to keep track of referrals. But do you know how your referrals compare to your conversions? How about the impact of primacy and recency effects? And would you be surprised to learn that nobody finds you via your own website -- even if you think they do? Tags: in practice, marketing, therapy

Posted on: 15 January 2019 | 3:40 am

Grief: What’s the Point of Talking About It?

'Isolation' seems too feeble a word to describe the part of grief that is aloneness, since it suggests a world out there which we could connect with were it not for our state; it is, rather, the kind of aloneness that tells us there is nobody there at all. Tags: bereavement, death, denial, relationships

Posted on: 26 November 2018 | 4:43 am

Investing in Loss, and Crowdfunding

It's only superficially ironic that work on Creative Regeneration and making a healing refuge should leave me so wiped out. Tags: anxiety and stress, creativity, therapy

Posted on: 12 November 2018 | 3:21 am

Disentangling Our Nervous States

A heightened state of anxiety seems to be the norm. But have feelings really taken over the world? Is it enough to just calm down? Tags: book, in practice, online mental health, politics, society, therapy

Posted on: 5 November 2018 | 5:14 am

Black Box Politics

There's a standard piece of advice frequently offered by psychologists and counsellors to people who are struggling to make sense of a challenging relationship. That piece of advice works pretty well when trying to understand politicians, too. Tags: decision making, empathy, in practice, politics, relationships

Posted on: 22 October 2018 | 3:46 am

The One Way to Healing

What if there were one true way to healing -- one method certain to deliver wellbeing and the resolution of whatever problems you might want to throw at it? Would you be tempted to give it a try? Tags: in practice, meaning, therapy

Posted on: 8 October 2018 | 4:07 am

Letting Go vs. Softening

In meditation, the suggestion to 'let go' can seem a bit abstract, a little either/or. Softening, on the other hand, is different. You can't get it wrong. Tags: in practice, meditation, mindful awareness

Posted on: 24 September 2018 | 4:58 am