A few years ago I wrote a blog post about my deep desire to find inner peace. If you are interested, you can read it here. This afternoon I felt a strong urge to read it again and see where am with this issue, three years later. The first thing that I noticed is that […]
“May you live in interesting times” is allegedly a Chinese curse reflecting that times of drama are harder to live through than times of peace. While there is undoubtedly some truth to this, challenging times can also be times of great personal and societal growth. An example of the latter is during the second world […]
Sometimes it’s hard to be yourself when you are surrounded by people you care about who are different to you. I’ve talked about the importance of understanding who you really are and your purpose in life. These two pieces of information are so important and can help you to find your own direction and to […]
In my last post I talked about the importance of knowing who you really are. This is intrinsically linked with knowing why you are here. Your identity, your true nature, is fundamentally connected to your purpose in life. Here’s an example to illustrate this: Let’s say you are a tiny acorn. Your physical incarnation is a […]
All of my work recently could be boiled down to one simple concept: helping people to connect with who they really are. This is a rather strange concept in academic psychology, where existential questions like “who am I?” and “why am I here?” are usually happily shunted off to the philosophy department. Yet surely these […]
The hot weather has dissolved into a hazy memory and a cooler, sharper feel of autumn is in the air. I had forgotten, as I do every year, that autumn brings with it a sense of excitement, of new beginnings. The beginning of the academic year and for many the start of a new phase […]
I’ve always wanted, and never had, a sense of inner peace. I remember experiencing happiness throughout my life. I’ve often felt bouncy and full of energy. I remember feeling surges of joy when I was a child, playing board games with my sister and her friend, watching fabulous TV like Dynasty and Dallas, swinging high […]
Love has been a bit of a four-letter word in clinical psychology. Perhaps it makes us think of therapists who have crossed boundaries, begun relationships with patients, even sexually abused them. Perhaps it all sounds a bit wishy-washy and not very scientific, shades of people who believe in religion rather than hard science […]
A few weeks ago I left my NHS job to work solely as an independent practitioner. I will be attempting to expand my private practice in addition to working a day a week in the local hospice providing freelance psychological input. It’s a huge change for me. All of my working life has been in […]