How Healthy Are Your Boundaries? By Susan McGrath

Most people are aware of physical boundaries like not invading someone’s space, but we also have internal boundaries that protect our thinking, values and beliefs. We set them to protect ourselves and to allow us to treat others respectfully. We learn our boundaries from our childhood environment. If we’re not allowed to set them healthily [...]
Dances With My Inner Critic: By Spontaneity Consultant Steve Chapman

Dances With My Inner Critic: By Spontaneity Consultant Steve Chapman

“Oh dear! I don’t know why you are bothering to read this piece. I’m sure that if you quickly move on you will find a plethora of other articles that are much, much better and written by appropriately qualified people who really know what they are talking about. This article is rather pathetic by comparison. [...]
‘More Straightforward & More Optimistic’ By Actress Ellie Nunn

‘More Straightforward & More Optimistic’ By Actress Ellie Nunn

Photo credit: Charlie Carter I turned up on the first day of the course feeling like an abject failure, barely able to make eye contact with the people around me. It was as though the expectations I had put on myself were physically weighing me down and crushing me. I was endlessly crying that I [...]
Surviving After Surviving: by Saskia Lichtenstern

Surviving After Surviving: by Saskia Lichtenstern

Photo credit: Amelia Allen Photography People assume that the hardest part of cancer is the treatment - the chemo, the radiation, the hair falling out - but it isn’t. The hardest part comes after, when loved ones have gone back to their daily lives, the treatment is over and you’ve been given the ‘all clear’. [...]
War and Peace: by psychotherapist Karen Abbs

War and Peace: by psychotherapist Karen Abbs

  In 2005, I went to war. I fulfilled a lifelong dream and started working for an international charity that provided medical and mental health services in conflict-affected countries. I was elated, filled with pride at putting on the official t-shirt that now represented who I was. I was a Humanitarian, off to serve, support [...]