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Difficult Relationships With Parents: Understanding the Impact on Adult Life

Do you feel guilty, anxious or emotionally drained after spending time with your parents? Explore why family relationships can remain difficult in adulthood and how psychotherapy can help you find a way forward.

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Ted Lasso and Psychotherapy: What Happens When We Hide Behind Positivity?

What lies beneath Ted Lasso's optimism? Explore how the series opens up questions about emotional avoidance, vulnerability and the experience of always being there for others.

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Anxiety in relationships

Anxiety is a common emotion amongst humans, because at its core, its function is to detect threats and danger and therefore protect us. Anxiety keeps us alert. There is a very natural level of anxiety that we need - to be cautious. But then there is another level of anxiety that can debilitate us, as it becomes a disproportionate response to our environment and reality.

In a relationship, anxiety can manifest in a way that challenges the dynamics between two people, leading to many things such as communication breakdown, distance/withdrawal, sexual difficulties and more.

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People pleasing - why do it?

People pleasing is constantly meeting the needs of others at the expense of one’s own needs.

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