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What is mental health? Mental health is what the term we use when we refer to our emotional, psychological and social well-being. It is about how our mind feels and functions on a daily basis. Our mental health is very important. It will affect our ability to do the things we want to and need to, including work, studies, relationships with others, personal pleasures and leisures, our sense of self-worth and purpose. The state of our mental wellbeing will impact how we think,

What is Gaslighting & the signs to look for? To put simply, gaslighting is form of psychological manipulation where someone makes you doubt you your own experience, perception or memory of an event. Gaslighting can be incredibly subtle and sly, and over time it has the power to erode your confidence in your own reality. This can lead to feelings of confusion, anxiety or co-dependency on the person who is gaslighting you. We can also say it is a form of emotional abuse if it b

Family issues - enmeshment trauma: family won't respect my boundaries. What is enmeshment trauma? Enmeshment trauma (also seen as over-intimacy or excessive closeness) is a type of emotional trauma that is caused by a lack of clear and healthy boundaries in the family environment and dynamics. Over-intimacy/enmeshment can happen when boundaries (typically between a parent and child) are blurred, overly diffused or even nonexistent. This leads to the child being emotionally f

Anxiety (clinically recognised as Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)) is one of the most enquired issues for support. Everyone feels...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neuro-developmental disorder often traced back to childhood. There is a...

ADHD mind: what can we do about it? Is it ADHD or is it trauma?

Everyone is talking about the most watched show on Netflix: Baby Reindeer. What would I think if either of those were my clients, what...

A good sex therapist will tell you that most of sexual desire disorders or sexual dysfunctions are simply healthy responses to dismal and...

Sex should be good, and what society deems 'good' is very misconstrued. Let's take a look at a few things of how we ought to reframe good...

In a committed relationship, you can’t always be right. ⁣Sometimes you’ll be wrong, and you’ll have to accept that. ⁣ ⁣ Sometimes you may...

Those of us who often feel torn between making others happy at our own cost, must look back at childhood. That’s where we learnt to obey...

You cannot expect to feel good or get better if your immediate environment is filled with people who detrimentally affect your...

What kind of patterns am I talking about? Patterns of relating. We all have a particular way in which we respond to other people and our...

When we escape from pain, the tension only builds and gets stronger. Our pain act like our messengers telling us ‘Look here, look this...

We have little expectations of children, as we understand their fragility and need for patience and understanding. We are slower to anger...

Be careful with how you treat the monsters inside you. We all have them. Those voices, those parts of us that feel brutal, unloving harsh...