If you break a leg, you see a doctor and have it heal. If you get the flu, you take care of yourself and maybe take medication to relieve symptoms until your body heals itself. But when it comes to depression and mental illness, the majority of us ‘deny til we die’.I guess that is …
Its not often you hear therapists refer to counselling techniques as magical, but that is what I heard today. Sitting in a room full of experienced therapists, we discovered what some called a magical way to heal past trauma. No forehead slamming or wand waving required.Radical Exposure Tapping, or RET, has been around for a …
In this awesome video, a bunch of awesome kids explain what it feels like to feel dysregulated and also provide a few ways of to bring yourself back down to earth. This is a super easy way to begin to understand mindfulness and why it has such a massive impact on our brains. You can …
3 Ways to Deal With Your Inner Drive to be Perfect!The worlds best research (so far) into the perfectionism- suicide link has just been released. the results are a little damning (pun intended) for those of us who like things perfect…Research published by the journal of personality describe 15 different definitions of perfectionism and ways of …
The above clip does a great job of explaining an issue we are hearing more about since the rise and rise of social media. There are two types of Narcissism, grandiose and vulnerable and they are literally classified as mental disorders. Recently I have heard the term narcissist get flung around for every second person …
The Story of Poor Misrepresented Loneliness….Perhaps one of our biggest fears in life is being alone – being condemned to spending time in the absence of other people, noise or light is actually considered torture in most parts of the world. Its no coincidence that social media is so prolific and always carries with it the …
“Mindfulness is paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally” – Jon Kabat-Zinn By now, you have all heard about mindfulness and its super powers. You may have read how mindfulness can help you sleep, give you extra energy and focus and can help you generally be a better person. This …
And Wherever You Happen To Be… If you are anything like me, you are managing too many things right now. And it is not only you and I, my friend, our society follows in hordes. Sydney statistically has amoung the hardest working employees anywhere in the Western world. It turns out that with these amazing …
Soon enough, mindfulness will become the next imperative. You wake up, you know you need to brush your teeth, exercise, interact with people at some point, eat well and sleep well. None of these things in isolation will ‘solve all your problems’ but letting any of these things go long enough, will certainly leave you …
Check this video about being authentic despite not always being mindful. Giving our selves permission to ‘be’ however we need to be, and allowing ourselves the space to experience our emotions as they come. It is natural, especially in the fast paced Western world and in cities like Sydney, to feel overwhelmed and at times …
