Identify your thinking traps Your thoughts affect how you see yourself and the world around you. What you tell yourself about a situation affects ho…

Do you feel like you are stuck in a rut? Deeply unhappy and in despair? Lacking energy, zeal, gusto, enthusiasm about life? Spend hours of days wat…

Pleasing others can be one of the most satisfying of experiences; finding that gift that we know a loved one will cherish, or preparing their favouri…

Recent research carried out by Brigham Young University (Holt Lundstad, et al 2015) suggests that loneliness can have the same scale of impact on you…

We often hear, read or say that we are our own worst enemy because self-negative talk is perceived as an inner terrorist uniquely dedicated to sabota…

Movies and books not only touch our hearts, but can also teach us about what it is like to be a human.  We can all relate to myths and tales on some…

This will be a follow-up to another article I wrote called ‘The rise of the physical’ (http://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellor-articles/th…

Most people who have experienced abuse, neglect, abandonment and rejection often attract spouses in relationships who can reinforce the emotions that…

During my many years suffering silently in an executive world, working ridiculously long hours, spending the majority of my life in pointless meeting…

Our narcissistic mirror can feel a lot like the mirror that the Evil Queen had in the fairytale, Snow White. Let's allow the Evil Queen to open up he…

“I felt useless, worthless, as though I had nothing of value to offer. I felt as if I existed rather than lived, as though my identity had been strip…

What was the last thing you failed at? And how are you feeling about that right now? Self-help literature attempts to present failure as something m…