Everyone can feel they have made a mistake but when you feel that you are a mistake, you are experiencing shame. It is a pervasive and destructive em…

Inability to concentrate, being at a loss of what to do, procrastination, lethargy, keeping a grudge etc, these are just a few of the complex psychol…

When scrolling on social media, you’ve probably read a plethora of ‘be kind to yourself’ quotes, maybe engaging fleetingly with this idea. But it’s p…

How often do you talk to yourself?  I guess that at least some of the time, it goes something like this: That was ridiculous! What are you doing?…

I recently read a poem by Henry Vaughan called The Retreat. A poem about the awareness that one can have about the loss of innocence in childhood and…

Feeling bad is often what brings many adults or young people into the counselling room. Shame is often connected with a feeling of a deeper, constant…

You may never have stopped to question the concept of ‘feeling fat’, rather taking it at face value and assuming that your body is to blame.  Frequen…

How true is this simple statement by Jim Kwick, "If you fight for your limitations, you get to keep them." We probably all know that we like to stay…

There’s nothing wrong with having a ‘nice’ or ’friendly’ character, but constantly preventing yourself from ‘upsetting the apple cart' by burying you…

Many of us will remember a relationship from our past which makes us cringe in disbelief: one where we were so keen for the person we were dating to…

Is your life now as you thought it would be when you were a child? Can you remember your answer when aged four or five to “What are you going to be w…

When you last messed up (and you did, you aren’t fooling anyone) how did you treat yourself? Did you give yourself a nurturing and encouraging messag…