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Counselling

Sep 26
1 min

Therapy sometimes makes you feel worse...

....but that's part of the process. Coming to therapy is not an easy thing. The idea of sharing your experiences or your inner thoughts ...

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Greg James

Sep 12
2 min

Find it hard to Forgive?

Many, if not most of us, have grown up with a definition of forgiveness that we find difficult to come to terms with. We feel that by fo...

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Greg James

Aug 31
4 min

Boarding School Survivors

Are you emotionally Bulletproof? I attended a boarding school in South Africa from the age of fourteen until I graduated high school thre...

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Greg James

Aug 17
2 min

How Do You Feel?

We've been tricked into thinking that we are getting a better idea of who we are. In reality, we are getting more distanced from ourselves.

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Greg James

Aug 1
2 min

Response vs Reaction

Sometimes you start to think that you are in therapy to help you cope with the people in your life that should really be in therapy.

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Greg James

Jul 29
1 min

What is Mental Health?

What do we mean when we talk about mental health? It's not what you might think! Mental health is not something you have or don't have.

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Greg James

Jul 17
2 min

Patterns of Relating

How hard do you fight to stay inside your comfort zone? How true is this simple statement? We probably all know that we like to stay with...

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Greg James

Jul 16
1 min

You're Not Stuck

Changing patterns of behaviour that are no longer helpful. Don’t look back at your past self and feel that you should have handled someth...

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Greg James

Jul 16
1 min

Authenticity

What does it mean to be authentic and how do you achieve it? Being authentic is a bit of a catch phrase at the moment but things usually ...

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Greg James

Jul 13
1 min

Dealing with the Past

The past is something that happened to you. It is not who you are.

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Greg James

Jul 13
2 min

What makes a Man?

Recognising the role of socialisation in what we perceive a masculine man to be. Recognising the role of socialisation in what we perceiv...

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Greg James

Jul 13
1 min

Where do you Find your Worth?

External Evaluation of Your Worth Will Always Lead to Disappointment Society teaches us that our worth is determined by the opinion of ot...

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