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06Dec2016
The challenge of christmas and why therapy may be the answer
Most people usually identify themselves with regard to job positions – what they do and where they live. This came into my mind as every auto rickshaw tuc-tuc driver during my India trip had a great way to build rapport quickly!” Hello, where you from, what’s your name, you have job, where your family?” Even […]
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23Nov2016
Couples counselling: the benefit imbalance
At a dinner, I listened to a man less than thirty, telling his friends that it was an expensive year coming up. Couples known to the circle had issued their invitations for legal wedding ceremonies. He joked that as more friends would be doing this, he too would have to find someone he didn’t like, […]
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22Nov2016
What is mindfulness?
Thich Nhat Hanh, a world renowned Zen Buddhist monk and writer describes in his book Fear, that body and mind are one. His approach is based on traditional teachings but certainly come under the umbrella of mindfulness. This is the practice of paying attention to one’s own thoughts and feelings in order to improve wellbeing. […]
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20Nov2016
How do I know if I’m depressed 3: antidepressants
Please note, these examples of personal stories are composites to illustrate common situations while maintaining confidentiality. We met with a young medic who had been to her GP and was already on a course of antidepressants. Despite pursuing treatment, she felt “exactly the same or worse than before”. No longer could she see the point […]
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19Nov2016
How do I know if I’m depressed 2: self criticism
Please note, these examples of personal stories are composites to illustrate common situations while maintaining confidentiality. I once met with a woman in her early sixties. Recently retired, she felt she was doing everything right, seeing a herbalist, adopting a vegetarian diet, even describing herself as having “nice life” with close family and a wonderful […]
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18Nov2016
How do I know if I’m depressed 1: seeking help
Please note, these examples of personal stories are composites to illustrate common situations while maintaining confidentiality. A highly financially successful white male in his early forties – describing himself as “working class, self made” asked to see me at the very next opportunity. He had heard about my depression treatment service from a man he […]
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16Nov2016
Residential therapy in India and the UK
I am in a country I chose to come to, at a time convenient for me and for reasons I have shared. I am in India to learn. I thought I was coming to be more capable in utilising yoga for psychotherapy. I’m beginning to learn I am here to find out if yoga helps […]
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07Nov2016
Y the C word? Using yoga therapy to help patients with cancer
‘Come on, Spas: be kinder to cancer patients’ is the headline of an article written by Susan d’Arcy in the Sunday Times (28/8/16). She writes that it is shocking that a recent survey of 97% of UK spas and salons would refuse to treat someone diagnosed ill with cancer to a massage. In contradiction to […]
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07Nov2016
A psychotherapist’s observations; living yoga in India
Awake. listening to chanting and singing coming from outside the house. Too indistinct for me to know if it was within the Christian, Muslim or Hindu housing. Taken an earlier stroll to activate the systems of the body, along the port seashore, 6am. My norm to be there by 6.45 latest. Surprise! Not the usual […]
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06Nov2016
Why mindfulness is integral to couples counselling
In therapy, clients frequently remark “I didn’t know what I was going to talk about today”, In this regard, therapy is like mindfulness and yoga. How so? Because there is always something new to experience in awareness. The idea is to give up expectation and let whatever happens happen. This can accomplish more than was […]
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