Most people do not know all that much about the process of therapy, that is not really surprising given the stigma attached to mental health difficulties and accessing help. If and when you manage to Read more…
Letting Go of Painful Emotions Learning to let go can be difficult, often people develop an attitude of clinging to feelings, obsessing about the how and why of emotional experience. It sounds counterintuitive but the Read more…
STOPP is a strategy that will help you in the heat of the moment when you are dealing with intense emotions. It incorporates aspects of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and mindfulness Read more…
Life Script Along side the psychological life positions is the life script, sometimes called childhood scripts, found in Transactional Analysis theory we find the concept of the Life Script. Life scripts have a deep and Read more…
Addiction is sometimes known as an equal opportunities illness, cutting across age, socio economic position, gender and race, though much empirical evidence to connects both substance and process addictions to pre-existing risk factors and contextual Read more…
Despite the fact that much empirical evidence to connects addictions to pre-existing risk factors addiction is sometimes known as an equal opportunities illness, cutting across age, socio economic position, gender, and race. But the experience Read more…
Introduction The Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills building mastery and coping ahead are based on building and appreciating the feeling of achievement. This feeling is most often created when we achieve a goal or accomplish something Read more…
Sometimes asking in clear and specific ways for what you want can bring up difficult feelings like anxiety and self-doubt, many people struggle with a sense that their needs are not valid and that Read more…
Trigger Thoughts, Thought Diffusion, and Coping Thoughts. Trigger thoughts are those thoughts that cause emotional pain and suffering, if you get stuck on your trigger thoughts, you probably experience overwhelming emotions more frequently than Read more…
RADICAL ACCEPTANCE The word dialectic in dialectical behaviour therapy, means to find balance between change and acceptance. You need to change those patterns of thought and behaviour in your life that are creating suffering whilst Read more…