As a crisis volunteer for SHOUT and Bath Mind, I worked with a lot of people who were thinking about or imminently planning suicide and...

Were you ever told to 'be brave' or not to cry? It's a very common thing for parents to say to children and it's most often not said...

Lockdown is hard for us all in different ways. It curbs our freedoms, we can go stir crazy with the kids in the house 24/7 while also...

Have you ever wondered what anxiety actually is and what purpose it serves? Anxiety is the body's natural response to stress - most...

....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...

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...

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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