People 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 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 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 moreAs promised, this month we are starting a series on various mental health disorders. There is a wide range of mental health conditions that affect your thinking, mood and behaviour, and we plan to cover all the main disorders. This will give you...
Read moreAs we've been making our way through the first part of this new year and new decade, many of us have been considering our lives and looking forward to making positive changes for the future. Here on the blog post we've had articles that tie in...
Read moreLast week we tried to inject some perspective into the whole issue of new year’s resolutions. We hope many of you took on board the value of self-care that Teyhou Smyth, our London-based therapist, wrote about – if you missed it you...
Read moreWe’re well into the start of 2020 now – how are your new year’s resolutions doing? Did you make any for this year? After the indulgence and perhaps stress of the Christmas season, most of us do make some kind of effort to...
Read moreWhile we’ve lately been talking about self love and self care on the blog – especially with regard to our mental health and how mindfulness can help – in today’s article we are going to look at something that plagues many...
Read moreContinuing on from last week’s post about self love, in today’s Therapists Thoughts article we look at self care. Our London-based therapist, Teyhou Smyth, looks at what self care is and how it is related to mindfulness. So many of us...
Read moreWhile we all enter into romantic relationships, and even platonic friendships, with great hopes and positivity, the reality is that many relationships not only go through hard times, but they fall apart completely. Many, if not most of us, are no...
Read moreWell, for most of us the holidays are over and it is back to the reality of ordinary, every day life. Christmas may have had its stresses, as we wrote about in previous posts here and here, but it was in general a much-anticipated break from...
Read moreLast week our blog post focused on resilience in the entitled surroundings of social media. And it occurred to us that perhaps not everyone is as familiar with the term “resilience” as those of us in the mental health field. So in...
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