My latest podcast interview was with Hemali Vora and Sherry Burns, both end of life doulas, in which we discussed life and death and a lot things in between, including death cafe meetings, legacy in life, anxiety, end of life preparation and planning and specifically their book Sacred Death: 25 tools for caregivers. See also […]
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Ah, yes, that time of packing away the seasonal decorations and lights is upon us and with perhaps little on the immediate horizon, in the way of excitement, it can be common to experience low mood. The parties are over and family and friends have departed and perhaps worse still, the credit card bills are
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I recently contributed to a post on self-care for therapists for the UKCP website when asked to reflect on my own self-care routine. UKCP is my professional body and stands for the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. When thinking about what to contribute I became more aware of what self-care actually means for me. Self-care
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I came across the idea of death cafes the other day when a colleague mentioned them almost in passing when we were discussing something unrelated on the telephone. I find it an uncomfortable truth that everyone alive today, no matter where they live in the world, and no matter how rich they are, will eventually
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This is a podcast interview with Allan Frater, UKCP accredited psychotherapist and teacher at the Psychosynthesis Trust in London, in which we discuss waking dreams, imagination (tame and wild), and an image centric way of working in psychotherapy. Allan’s new book Waking Dreams – Imagination in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life is published by Transpersonal Press and can be
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Misophonia (also known as Selective Sound Sensitivity Syndrome, or 4S) is a condition when intense anger and disgust is experienced when confronted with sounds and noise coming from other people. Sufferers of this condition are not choosing to feel that way. Misophonia is a conditioned reflex disorder, and whilst not formally recognised yet as a medical
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Having low self-esteem can be a common presenting issue that motivates people to seek therapy. Self-esteem is how we value and perceive ourselves. However, in popular self-help literature self-esteem is often viewed as synonymous with self-confidence. I like to think of the distinction between self-esteem and self-confidence as this: you may have the confidence to
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Meditation can often be unfairly associated with new age spiritualists, or oddballs, or indeed the pious, but actually meditation should be a practice for everyone. Meditation can also be seen as being the remit of those who are more somatic in nature and who operate in a felt sense manner in how they relate to others. But
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It is common to have anxieties about returning to an office location following a period of extended homeworking, whether that is a hybrid approach or a full time return to a physical location. Lockdown will have affected us all in very different ways. It is very common to have worries about ongoing safety and protection
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Sometimes there are buzzwords in the self-help field, some that come and go and some that stick around. When the late John Bradshaw was around, everybody seemingly needed to refer to their ‘family of origin’ issues and specifically to address their ‘inner child’ in order to self actualise. Therapy became ‘inner child’ centred in many
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