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How to admit you have historical psychological difficulties that are unresolved: How you can overcome these and live a more informed life
Admitting to unresolved psychological difficulties from your past can be a daunting and emotional journey. However, acknowledging these issues is the first step towards healing and living a more informed and fulfilling life. Here’s how you can navigate this process with compassion and courage.
Understanding Psychosynthesis Therapy: A Unique Approach to Healing
Psychosynthesis is a therapeutic approach that goes beyond traditional psychoanalysis. It emphasises self-development and growth, helping individuals to harmonise different aspects of their personality to achieve self-realisation and personal transformation. This method is rooted in the belief that every person has the potential to grow and become the fullest realisation of themselves.
Understanding the Silence Around Abuse: RACIS for Healing in Therapy
Abuse, whether recent or historical, often remains shrouded in silence. This silence can be particularly profound when dealing with non-recent abuse, trauma, and unresolved historical difficulties. It’s crucial to understand and address the reasons behind this silence to help you on your healing journey. Integrating the RACIS Model—Recognise, Accept, Co-ordinate, Integrate, Synthesise—can provide a structured approach to this process.
Say Goodbye to Doom Scrolling: Tips to Make Your Phone Work for You
We know all too well by now our phones are more than phones! They are powerful tools that can either enhance our productivity or completely derail it. If your phone use is problematic - you can take control of your phone to create a more focused, intentional, and balanced life. Let's explore some practical steps to transform your phone from a distraction machine into a productivity ally.
How Does Therapy Improve Communication?
Therapy improves communication by increasing self-awareness, understanding past influences, regulating emotions, enhancing empathy, building healthier relationships, addressing defence mechanisms, and encouraging personal growth. These changes enable you to communicate more effectively, leading to more fulfilling and less conflicted interactions.
Respond Rather Than React: Applying Parent, Adult, Child Communications in Your Life
Effective communication is a cornerstone of successful relationships, whether personal or professional. One powerful framework for enhancing communication is the idea of Parent, Adult, Child (PAC) Communications, a central concept in Transactional Analysis (TA). This helps us understand and improve our interactions by recognising and adjusting the different states from which we communicate. Let’s explore how to apply PAC communications to respond thoughtfully rather than react impulsively.
Silencing the Critic: How to Deal with Your Critical Inner Voice
Ever caught yourself thinking, "I'm not good enough" or "I'll never succeed"? Our internal critic can be detrimental to our self-esteem and mental health. In this post, we’ll explore strategies to manage and quiet that critical inner voice.
Understanding Our Defence Mechanisms: How We Handle Feelings and Move from Reaction to Response
Have you ever wondered why you lash out when criticised or retreat when overwhelmed? The surprising connection between our defence mechanisms and our emotional responses might hold the answer…
How to Set Boundaries with Problematic People: A Guide
Navigating relationships can be challenging, especially when dealing with problematic people. Human interactions are complex and messy and it’s important to maintain healthy boundaries with problematic people. Here’s a guide to help you set and maintain boundaries effectively….
Carl Jung: Quotes and Wisdom for Life
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.
Guest Post for creativecounsellors.org Blog: Embracing the Digital Waves: A Psychodynamic Counsellor’s Reflection on Online Therapy by Rick Cox
Working online has widened the horizons of my therapeutic landscape. Gone are the limitations of geographical boundaries. Clients from diverse backgrounds now have access to the support they seek.