Some Light Reading
Welcome to our blog. This is where we post informative and interesting posts about our centre, psychotherapy and counselling.
Loneliness
Many people can feel lonely from time to time, especially at this time of year. As the cold weather sets in, days get shorter and darker, and people are often less likely to go out and socialise with others. This only increases feelings of loneliness. However, for...
Children’s Wellbeing
What Is Wellbeing? When we think about a child with optimal wellbeing...what do we imagine? A healthy, happy child, well nurtured, provided for materially and educationally with access to all the opportunities life holds? Wellbeing relates to quality of life dependent...
Sex Addiction
Sex Addiction You're at the supermarket with your husband. While you're in the checkout queue, you pick up your mobile and begin scrolling through the dozens of contacts. Although you have already managed to have sex with 4 of them in the last 24 hours, you're...
Vitamins – Mind and Body?
It has long been said that the human body is so complex that it would be impossible to create it from scratch. Everything is designed to work in perfect harmony, every muscle and ligament, every nerve and synapse, everything down to the way that the body extracts...
Coping with exam stress
For most young people the first brush they have with overwhelming anxiety is around exam season and the lead up to it. Often teachers will begin to reinforce the importance of GCSEs or A-levels a full year before they are set to commence and that pressure can be...
The parasympathetic nervous system at a glance
Those who are an old hand at complementary therapies such as yoga or meditation will be well acquainted with mentions of the exotic sounding parasympathetic nervous system. In brief, this is the part of the nervous system- the nerve network that affects all our bodily...
Understanding: Anger
Wrath- the intensified feeling of anger, the one which means we are beyond control of our emotions or actions, is included in the Bible's 7 deadly sins. Whether you are of a Christian inclination or not, the avoidance of descending into full blown fury is something...
When counting sheep just won’t cut it- what is it keeping us awake at night?
Sleep is much like gravity; in that it is an integral part of life and our existence and yet it is still not fully understood. When placed in an MRI machine different parts of the brain can be seen lighting up, busying away while we snooze, our bodies do quiet repair...
Breaking the chains of intergenerational trauma
In recent years there has been a lot of discussion around mental health and counselling, particularly when it is relevant to seek help and when it is not. A somewhat old fashioned idea is that because it was something that wasn't spoken about or sought after in the...
Is self diagnosis becoming a Tik Tok trend?
Tik Tok has exploded with full force onto our screens and while many of us may not be directly part of the community, much of social media is now awash with shared and re-shared videos, which cover a mind boggling array of subjects. Whether you are looking for a...
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