Even though most of us are no longer living in #lockdown, the Covid-19 pandemic continues to affect our lives – especially our relationships and social interactions. Loneliness, that unspoken shadow in many lives, has loomed larger than...
Read moreIt seems that people-pleasing is a habit that affects women more than men, and it is learned in childhood. If the series on people-pleasing written by our London-based therapist Teyhou Smyth has resonated with you, this next article may help you...
Read moreHow are you coping with what 2020 has thrown at you so far? Even those people who have stable relationships, jobs and health, have been feeling the stress of this unprecedented time in our generation. Those of us who are unfortunate enough to...
Read moreWe all know what it is like to feel angry, whether it is the slow burn simmering kind or the sudden explosive kind. Perhaps we’ve even experienced the violence of anger in a mob as we wrote about in a previous post; or the self destruction...
Read morePeople pleasing can sometimes lead people down the path of self-destruction. As we considered in our previous post on People Pleasing, constantly putting others before ourselves can cause resentment and anger. Unrecognised or suppressed anger can...
Read moreWe’ve all felt angry at situations in our personal lives. Most of us have felt anger at injustice in society at some stage. How many of us have been in a crowd, whether online or in person, where the anger has amplified to the point of...
Read morePeople pleasing has complex roots and is sometimes hard to identify in ourselves, even when we recognise it in others. It affects so many areas of our lives and all our relationships. It has a profound effect on the decisions we make and the...
Read moreIn a post-Covid world, we have all had to find different ways to occupy ourselves and to mind our mental health. We all intuitively know that music has a profound effect on our minds and emotions; perhaps more so now than ever, as we find...
Read moreOwen Connolly, founder and counselling psychologist at the Connolly Counselling Centre, was interviewed this week by Johnny Brew for Irish newspaper The Independent. Johnny caught up with Owen in his beautiful garden in County Dublin and asked...
Read moreAs many countries begin to ease the restrictions they had imposed on their citizens to manage the Covid-19 pandemic, people are beginning to consider the future and how they will return to “normal”. But what will the new normal look...
Read moreFollowing on from last week’s post about how to cope with being quarantined during the coronavirus pandemic, today’s article looks in more detail at how we can all be managing stress and anxiety during a pandemic, or indeed any...
Read moreLife has changed dramatically for us all. Covid-19, or coronavirus, has had a profound effect on the worldwide population in ways never expected by anyone. Everyone has had to adjust and at times many of us have felt unable to cope. People have...
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