Healing A Heartache
Healing a heartache - How is it possible to recover from a pain so bad, we think it will never end? Why isn’t it easy to wake up one morning and say “That is it, I am over this pain, I am free now and I am moving on?” No [...]
Emotional Triggers
Emotional triggers cause people to experience intense emotional feelings. Triggers often leave people feeling extremely vulnerable and stressed, unsure of themselves and potentially fragile. When people find themselves in this ‘state’ they may react in unfamiliar ways and agree to involve themselves in activities they would normally resist. While triggers [...]
The healing power of animals and pets
The healing power of animals and pets Do you resonate with a certain animal and experience a greater sense of connection when that animal appears? Do you ever feel sad, lost, lonely or simply miserable and then your pet arrives? All animals appear to have the innate ability to sit [...]
Choosing a therapist
A good therapist is never judgmental. A good therapist provides a client with realistic concern, honest support, genuine compassion and a personal intervention plan designed to move through painful issues and embrace strengths. Through personally challenging times, we often need help to expand our world and shift our thoughts, in [...]
Gratitude
How amazing to think it often takes a small crisis to help us understand and appreciate what is really essential in life. Facing a short and unexpected illness, I reflected on the importance of the simple things that life provides us. Things we often take for [...]
Pretending in Difficult Conversations
Difficult conversations often require us to speak up and present a clear base line to others. In my practice this month, I noticed a theme involving the well known circular dance we call ‘pretending things are OK for the sake of other people’. Scott, (2002) shared that “All conversations are [...]
Self Care & Stress Management Tips
Self Care & Stress Management Tips Stress is an everyday fact of life. Learning how to respond to stress determines what impact it will have on your life and your future. Davis, Eshelman & McKay, (2008) suggest that some stress is good for us and other types of stress can [...]
Understanding Shame
The feeling of shame is often described as a sense of smallness, worthlessness, and powerlessness in certain circumstances. Shame can materialize as being self-absorbed, self-centered, and particularly isolating. The more prone someone is to feeling shame, the more likely they are to have self-esteem deficits, blame others, hold onto resentments, [...]
Self-sabotage
To prevent ourselves from becoming hurt, we often create behaviours to protect ourselves and a belief can be formed. However, rather than keep us safe, our beliefs often prevent us from growing and developing as a person. How many of us say we do not align ourselves with ‘self-sabotage’ yet [...]
Marriage breakups and grief
Marriage Breakups and Grief: A marriage breakup can be one of life’s most difficult experiences. A person experiencing this will struggle with many intense and frightening emotions, including depression, anger, and guilt. Maintaining a broad perspective isn't easy. It’s natural to want to focus on the pain and where it hurts. [...]
Solutions Therapy Website
I'd like to present my new website: www.solutionstherapy.com.au Geoff from photografica creative designed and created it, and he was also very helpful with organising hosting and editing my copy. Thank you so much, Geoff. I love it! Thank you as well to Carol at www.firstprint.com.au for the fabulous logo! Very stylish indeed. [...]