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The First Month Frenzy: Taming the New Year Beast
January brings fresh starts and lofty resolutions, but it can also unleash the "New Year Beast"—a mix of post-holiday letdown, pressure, and self-doubt. By embracing self-awareness, setting flexible intentions, and prioritizing self-care, you can tame this beast and start the year with balance and positivity.
Post-Divorce Counselling, Through the Turmoil to a New Season
Divorce is a life-altering event that brings emotional and psychological challenges, impacting individuals and families alike. Post-divorce counselling offers a supportive space for healing, personal growth, and fostering resilience, helping individuals navigate this transition and rebuild their lives.
New Year’s Resolutions: Are Mine Authentic?
Explore how to create meaningful New Year's resolutions that reflect your true desires, values, and goals. This article guides you in ensuring your resolutions are authentic and achievable.
Embracing Solitude and Finding Joy in Your Own Company
As Valentine's Day approaches, the air is filled with messages of romantic love and affection. However, amidst the celebrations of couples and partnerships, it's important to remember the profound value of self-love and the joy of embracing solitude. In this article, we'll explore the concept of loneliness, why it's essential to cultivate a positive relationship with yourself, and the benefits of finding joy in your own company.
The Impact of your Relationship with your Parental Figures on your Worldview of Relationships
Attachment styles are not genetically inherited, however they often pass down from parents to their children. Unfortunately parenting is not formally taught, and thus individuals tend to do what they learned from their own parenting experiences
Grief and Loss: Insight and Helping Those Who Are Grieving
We all experience some sort of loss in our lives. The experience is different for everyone. It is so easy for some of us to forget what that pain was like and for others, they never forget.
The Role of “Apology Languages” in Healing Hurt
Similar to the Love Languages, a framework developed by Gary Chapman to explain the way in which people give and receive love, each one of us also has a preferred Apology Language. This means that we all have an unconscious preference as to how we like to express or receive an apology.
Embracing Neurodiversity: Effective Counselling for Neurodivergent Individuals
In our diverse world, it is essential for mental health professionals to recognize and embrace the concept of neurodiversity. Neurodivergent individuals, who have unique neurological differences such as autism, ADHD, or other conditions, require a counselling approach that understands and respects their specific needs. By adopting a person-centred and inclusive approach, counsellors can provide effective support and empower neurodivergent individuals to navigate life's challenges with confidence and resilience.
Coping Mechanisms: Navigating Life’s Challenges with Resilience
What is the significance of coping mechanisms in managing life's challenges, and how can individuals effectively utilise coping strategies to promote their mental and emotional well-being?
Understanding and Addressing Self-Harm in Teenagers: A Guide for Parents and Educators
Self-harm has become a very serious issue, which has in recent years become increasingly prevalent amongst teenagers around the world. Self-harm or injury is a form of “coping” that involves methods of inflicting physical injury on oneself like cutting, burning, or hitting, to try and cope or deal with overwhelming feelings of emotional pain and stress. Self-harm can however have profound consequences and can likely lead to long term physical and emotional issues.