Do you sometimes want to slink away, hold onto that glass to steady a shaking hand, cringe inwardly and wish you were more like ‘so and so’? We all n…

Counsellor Kate Megase explores why we seek validation in relationships, what it means and the ways we can stop.

For many of us, life is pretty good a lot of the time; but, for all of us, there are times when it’s really tough. And when those rough times hit, it…

I have called this article the LBGT journey but, I am only going to discuss the LBG. I hope to return to gender and sex and how the world has a defau…

Do you have thoughts of feeling incompetent and worthless? Feeling not good enough and always negative? The way you talk to yourself in your head is…

I was away from home recently. Many of my usual habits were disrupted. I was in a different place with different people and that meant that a lot of…

I have decided to write about this topic because I seem to be seeing and hearing examples of it often as of late, I have seen it as a sign that the t…

One of the most common threads I see in therapy is people battling with low self-esteem. This presents itself in many different forms. Sometimes it l…

Symptoms of low self-esteem can include feeling worthless, incompetent and unrealistic of our abilities, being overwhelmed with negative thoughts and…

Learning to say ‘no’ can help you to stop doing things for other people which you really do not want to do. By doing this you can ease the frustratio…

We’ve all done it – got caught up in our own thinking and gone round and round like the hamster on the wheel. This exercise is to help you get out o…

Toxic people tend to be bullies. They do not cope well with stress. They are the sort of people in organisations who react like children when they do…