Avoidant-Anxious Partnerships
Navigating Avoidant-Anxious Partnerships: Understanding the Push and Pull In the world of relationships, there’s a classic dynamic that many couples find themselves stuck in: the avoidant-anxious partnership. This pairing can often feel like a game of emotional tug-of-war, where ...
Relationship Challenges for Working Professionals
Balancing career demands and maintaining a healthy relationship can be a daunting task for working professionals. Long hours, constant travel, and high-stakes projects often leave little room for nurturing personal connections. This environment can give rise to several common ...
Stress Management
Stress Management in 2024: 5 Tips for a Healthier Mind It is hard to find someone who isn't stressed and overwhelmed at the moment. Whether it's the ongoing impact of global events, personal challenges, or work pressures, managing stress ...
Benefits of Process Group Therapy
It's easy to fall into the trap of people-pleasing. Like a vortex, we can quickly lose ourselves saying yes when we want to say no, putting others' needs before our own, and ultimately forgetting who we are as unique ...
Attachment Styles and Love
Understanding how we connect with our partners can be the key to building lasting, fulfilling relationships. The concept of attachment styles, rooted in the work of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth, helps us to understand how the bond that ...
Belonging Connection and Intimacy
Is it time to start moving beyond the individual as part of our approach to mental health treatment? Are we not a social species who need belonging, connection, and intimacy just as much, if not more than self-regulation? The ...
Stop Dropping The Balls
Does anyone else feel like life has become a bit of a circus? Like we have become clowns juggling on a stage in lineup of acts that are big, bright, bold and sometimes just outrageous. While this makes life ...
Self-Care: Helpful or Hindrance
The self-care industry, with its sleek marketing, promises to deliver personal wellness and happiness to the world. Influencers have poured their hearts and souls into stacks of online content, courses, and e-books that promise to help consumers reach maximum ...
Is Emotion Regulation Suffocating Us?
It's no secret that emotion regulation is a fundamental skill in maintaining some semblance of stability in our lives. Influencers and mental health advocates have been promoting self-soothing, distraction, and distress tolerance skills for decades now to ensure we ...
Setting Boundaries for Connection
Setting Boundaries for Connection When people hear the word "boundaries," they often think of limitations, restrictions, and pushing others away. They are typically used as a way of protecting ourselves from being burdened, used, and overstimulated in a world ...
Profit and Productivity: The Mental Health Burden
Profit and Productivity: The Burden on Mental Health It's all about the bottom-line and whether you are meeting your targets and KPI's! In the corporate world where productivity and profit often reign supreme, we can thank the neoliberal ...
Shifting From Stress to Meaningful Living
Shifting from Stress to Meaningful Living Psssttt.... Did you know that you can be busy and that doesn't mean you have to be stressed? We live in a world where people are constantly drawing parallels between busy-ness, stress ...
What Causes Burnout
What Causes Burnout & How to Build Resilience In today's fast-paced world, it's easy to feel like we're constantly running on empty, juggling endless responsibilities, and battling overwhelming stress. From demanding careers to family obligations and everything in ...
Personal Growth And Vulnerability
Embracing Vulnerability: The Key to Personal Growth and Authentic Living When we explore personal growth and fulfillment, an often overlooked yet essential ingredient is the power of vulnerability. Until recently, this concept was a complete misnomer as cultural norms ...
Important Questions to Ask Before Getting Serious
Before getting serious and taking the leap into a real commitment, let's have a chat about some important stuff. It can feel scary and super vulnerable initiating these conversations, but not as scary as having to end a relationship ...
Nurturing the Caregiver
Nurturing the Caregiver: 3 Essential Tips to Combat Burnout As caregivers, our hearts overflow with love and compassion for those around us. However, in our noble mission, we often neglect the most crucial aspect of caregiving: ourselves! Burnout lurks ...
Meaningful Discussions for Maturing Couples: 5 Conversations Starters
Is it time for you and your partner to have more meaningful discussions to deepen your connection and enrich your friendship? As you navigate the hustle and bustle of life in your 30s and 40s, communication can ignite intimacy ...
Unraveling ADHD: Navigating Inhibition for Your Child’s Success
Dear Parents, In the bustling world of childhood, where every moment is an opportunity for exploration and growth, it's not uncommon for some young adventurers to find themselves navigating a maze of challenges and hurdles. Among these challenges, Attention ...
Reducing Safety Behaviours When Anxious
We seem to have developed this real affinity with safety, presumably because we are so conscious of danger. Telling people to be safe as they venture into the world is pretty commonplace right? Whether we are embarking on a ...
Why don’t I prioritize my mental health?
Whether it is because of time, finances, resources, or energy, are you wondering 'why don't I prioritize my mental health?' The excuses we make are phenomenal and most of them are because of some external influence. We use our ...
Spit, Fire, Burn: Embracing Anger & Rage
She felt it burning inside her. She wasn’t able to embrace anger & rage but it had been smouldering for a while. She noticed her thoughts racing. It was consuming. Nothing much else mattered. It was activating and fuelled ...
Conflict, Blame & Shame
In a polarised world, we often deal with conflict by choosing a side. After all, we are a social species that thrives on a sense of belonging. To achieve this, we follow trends, invest in fashion, style our homes, ...
5 Important Self-Care Tips
Are you in desperate need of some self-care? To be honest, a lot of us are. As we manage life, work commitments and family demands, our tendency to prioritise self-care can drop right off the radar. It becomes something ...
Adjusting To Change
“Your ability to cope with structure and routine is just as important as adjusting to change.” Sarah Campbell We are creatures of habit. We thrive on routine and predictability without being conscious of it. Well, not until someone moves ...
Coping with Emotions & Tolerating Stress
Coping with emotions is some of the most powerful work we can do for ourselves, our relationships and our sense of happiness. Some would say that emotions are the epicentre of our behaviour, beliefs and thinking. They range from ...
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Avoidant-Anxious Partnerships
Navigating Avoidant-Anxious Partnerships: Understanding the Push and Pull In the world of relationships, there’s a classic dynamic that many ...
Relationship Challenges for Working Professionals
Balancing career demands and maintaining a healthy relationship can be a daunting task for working professionals. Long hours, constant ...
Stress Management
Stress Management in 2024: 5 Tips for a Healthier Mind It is hard to find someone who isn't stressed ...
Benefits of Process Group Therapy
It's easy to fall into the trap of people-pleasing. Like a vortex, we can quickly lose ourselves saying yes ...
Attachment Styles and Love
Understanding how we connect with our partners can be the key to building lasting, fulfilling relationships. The concept of ...
Belonging Connection and Intimacy
Is it time to start moving beyond the individual as part of our approach to mental health treatment? Are ...