Dear Therapist in my Pocket, how do I stop feeling this way? Emma’s email pings into my inbox, and I can feel all the desperation and confusion that comes with…
It may be that there’s the teeniest, tiniest tinge of frustration behind this title. I’m throwing my hands up in the air as I write. As a psychotherapist, energy worker and empath—one…
So how about we clear this up, once and for all? This, “Thoughts Become Things” thing we have going on. This, “Be careful what you think” thing. This, “If you…
I’m sitting in a motorway services sipping a coffee—my mind taken up with where I’ve been and where I’m going—when I’m suddenly captivated by a family group sitting a little…
I knew I had to get away. One too many nights of my then-partner coming home drunk. One too many episodes of bi-polar manic aggression. One too many days of trying…
Have you ever noticed how strangely comforting we find it to create a story to explain why bad things are happening to us? And have you also noticed how that story frequently…
I want to invite you to come with me inside the mind of someone we might call, often in sheer frustration, a “bottomless pit.” We all know what that means,…
“Dear Therapist in my Pocket, can I please ask you something? I’m so desperate!” The message pinged into my inbox as I sat with my morning cuppa, having just opened…
She can already feel it building and she knows, with a pang of fear and dread that grips her like an iron fist around her heart—merciless and cruel and gloating—that…
“Get over it!” People say. “It was a long time ago,” they point out. “They probably won’t even remember. The only person still suffering is you.” “You’ve got to let it…