How Counselling Can Help You Manage Your Anger
What’s your relationship with your anger? Is it allowed free expression as part of being a healthy human being with emotions? Is it suppressed and not allowed out? Or is…
Personal Development
Are you a Perfectionist?
And, if you are, what is the problem with that? You might think that being a perfectionist is a good thing because it gets you closer to reaching your goals…
How Being In Therapy Can Help You Find Your Voice
The reasons why people come into therapy are vast and various. You may have a nagging sense that something isn’t quite right in your life, and you’d like the space…
Five Ways To Feel More Optimistic
The arrival of Spring traditionally blows in the chance of new possibilities and new options in life. The daffodils and snowdrops cropping up in our gardens are a metaphor for…
Seven Everyday Techniques To Tackle Your Negative Thinking
Negative thinking can be terribly intrusive on your day. Negative thoughts can set up camp in your brain and crowd out any other positive thoughts, sometimes leaving you feeling low…
How Altruism Can Help Not Just Others, But You Too
It is so well-established that giving to others is of benefit to your health that it is one of the Five Steps to Mental Wellbeing recommended by the NHS on…
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
With Valentine’s Day here again it feels like a good time to ask: What is love? And how can we best find, manage and maintain it? Love is about so…
Can’t Sleep? What To Do If You Have Insomnia
Everybody knows that a good night’s sleep is vital to our wellbeing, and that not getting enough kip can badly affect our mental and physical health. Doctors recommend that we…
How To Make Good Resolutions And Make Sure You Keep Them
The habit of making resolutions to change your bad habits so that you can live more wisely, healthily and happily is a long-established tradition. Sadly the resolutions themselves don’t always…
Seeing Red? Ten Tips To Manage Your Anger
We take a look at anger: what is it? Why do you have it? And, what can you do about it? It is only human to get angry sometimes, everyone…