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New Year and Its Pressures
At New Year there seems to be a lot of pressure -- to have a good time, to make New Year's eve a perfect night, and then to top it all with a fresh start in life. Does it have to be this way? Tags: anxiety and stress, meaning, mindful awareness (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - January 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: anxiety and stress meaning mindful awareness Source Type: news

Going at Your Own Pace
When it feels like everything is speeding up around us, working against the tide and putting pressure on ourselves to force our own pace to match rarely offers the best way forward. Tags: anxiety and stress, mindful awareness (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - December 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: anxiety and stress mindful awareness Source Type: news

Tips for Living the Fully Conscious Life
Often, we're only half-listening or half-awake when we do things. That's the essence of life on autopilot. But there have been some truly remarkable souls among us who lived with greater than typical awareness. Tags: mindful awareness, presence (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - December 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: mindful awareness presence Source Type: news

Not Moving the Place Where it Hurts
Instead of tackling a problem 'head on', what if we just avoid it? This sounds counter-intuitive, but I don't mean pretending the problem doesn't exist; quite the contrary. Tags: mindful awareness, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - December 4, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: mindful awareness therapy Source Type: news

The Inner Abuser
Why do we tolerate comments from ourselves, which we would not tolerate from anyone else? Indeed, why do we sometimes allow whole running commentaries on our way of being to take up every second of the day and a significant amount of our mental and emotional space? Tags: abuse and trauma, eating disorders, relationships (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - November 27, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: abuse and trauma eating disorders relationships Source Type: news

The Sudden Desire to End Therapy: Resistance or Wisdom?
Often when clients suddenly decide they want to end therapy, therapists are encouraged by the 'therapy culture' to think of it as some kind of resistance to the process. I wonder, is this necessarily the case? Tags: in practice, power, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - November 20, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: in practice power therapy Source Type: news

Dealing With ‘ Old ’ Feelings, and the ‘ Inner Child ’ Cringe
When you realise that overwhelming feelings can belong to you but not belong to you now or as the person you are today, it really is possible to soothe them in real time. Often these feelings belong to childhood, and turning to those child-feelings with gentleness is of huge benefit. So why does the term 'inner child' make me cringe? Tags: in practice, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - November 13, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: in practice therapy Source Type: news

Terrealuma: Finding the Natural State
As a child, playing in the garden, the blissful absence of having to think or to worry seemed to me like my natural state. But now as an adult, all the conditions seem to be against finding something like that natural state. Tags: meditation, mindful awareness, work-life (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - November 6, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: meditation mindful awareness work-life Source Type: news

It Ain ’ t What You Do, It ’ s the Way That You Do It
I've been struck this week in my work by how important the attitude we strike is to the effectiveness of things we do to help ourselves. I am starting to believe that it is even possible to use a self-compassion technique so instrumentally that it brings us no real relief. Tags: in practice, mindful awareness, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - October 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: in practice mindful awareness therapy Source Type: news

The Power of a Simple Question: What Do I Want?
What do you want? It's a simple question but one that we are sometimes terrified to ask. Once we get used to it, however, it can have some radical, yet gentle effects. Tags: mindful awareness, relationships (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - October 23, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: mindful awareness relationships Source Type: news

The Need for Regeneration
Major life changes take their toll, and we all need time to regenerate. This is every bit as true of positive changes and achievements as it is of negative changes and trauma. Tags: anxiety and stress, in practice, relaxation (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - October 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: anxiety and stress in practice relaxation Source Type: news

Understanding Addictive Behavior Patterns
Anyone struggling with addictive behavior patterns knows how perplexing and self-defeating they can be. But they also know what it's like to be held firmly in their grip. Tags: addiction, relationships, sexuality (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - September 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: addiction relationships sexuality Source Type: news

Understanding and Overcoming Emotional Dependency
Healthy interpersonal functioning is largely about getting the balance right on a number of important dimensions. That's especially true when it comes to issues of emotional dependence versus independence. Tags: abuse and trauma, dependence, independence, relationships, self-esteem (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - August 29, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Tags: abuse and trauma dependence independence relationships self-esteem Source Type: news

Understanding and Overcoming Emotional Dependency
Healthy interpersonal functioning is largely about getting the balance right on a number of important dimensions. That's especially true when it comes to issues of emotional dependence versus independence. (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - August 29, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr George Simon, PhD Source Type: news