What are the top 3 ways Psychology helps patients fight with their addiction? Recently, I was featured on an addiction treatment centre’s website — asking 9 top psychologists around the world, to explain the role of therapy in addiction treatment: Here is the site (https://www.choicepointhealth.com/top-9-psychologists.../) …

Our Brains Can Keep Us In Victim Mode: Watch Out For This. Our thoughts and reasoning can whirr around finding excuses so as not to face what we need to learn in order to grow. And when people look for excuses not to learn, they tend to start blaming…

Don’t Take It So Seriously, It’s Just A Joke — Or Is It? In Britain for example, many people find it very hard to say what they really feel or think. …

Don’t Let Your Struggle Become Your Identity. Life isn’t always easy and it can throw you a few very difficult challenges. How you cope with these challenges will inform you about yourself — how you think, how you behave, how you deal with situations, a crisis and indeed even a…

Emotional Abuse Is Carried Out — Not Just By Men But By Women Too. If any of you in the UK have been or are listening to the Archers drama on BBC’s Radio 4, you may be following the unfolding drama between the married couple Rob and Helen. The Archers…

Grief and Sadness. Grief and Sadness. When you feel misery and grief, and you feel that you cannot face the day, know that the feeling will pass. Nothing stays the same. You may have to weep. You may feel broken. …

The Rise of the Collective Compassion — What Emotions Are You Feeding The Field With? The Rise of the Collective Compassion — What Emotions Are You Feeding The Field With? I have just attended a 3-day conference with the Heartmath Institute discussing — The Rise of the Collective Compassion: In…

Ukraine, A Mirror For Us All. Just like Ukraine that straddles the East and the West, its people wanting to leave the old behind, whilst reaching out for the new, is a reminder of the every day challenges we can face when any of us try to make changes; when obstacles seem to emerge, sometimes even…

Have you got a “Deactivate Box”? This is so you can write on a card or strip of paper the thoughts that you wish to deactivate, the thoughts that seem to emerge from nowhere, that go round and round in your head — creating anxiety and stress. Start writing these…