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Healthy Boundaries for Healthier Relationships

If you were not taught (or modelled) the art of setting healthy boundaries, you may find yourself caught up in relationships where a blur...

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Reclaim your Innate Specialness

When we are innocent, vulnerable children, we are unable to discern that which is 'our stuff' and that which belongs to 'our parents (or ...

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Resilience is about ACTIONS you can take TODAY

We all have an incredible capacity for resilience – human nature is truly stunning in this regard. There are times however, like right now...

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Bemused about the relationship between Social Media and Mental Health?

There is no denying the ways in which social media adds to our lives - connections with friends and family; support groups; inspiring ima...

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Start therapy and light your inner Spark

Starting therapy can feel daunting. Putting words to painful feelings in front of someone you don’t know. Sharing long held secrets with ...

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Perfectionism - silence the beast!

"I'm not good enough", "I need to do more, be more and achieve more" perfectionism nags, its voice relentless, repetitive, stopping you f...

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Self-care for sensitive people

Are you easily overstimulated? Do you feel positive and negative emotions intensely? Are you a sponge for other people’s anger, stress, s...

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Indecision. Fear. Paralysis.

Choices swirling in the ambiguity fear of the unknown indecision paralysis. Fear tells us we can't cope with what's ahead. helpless power...

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Surrender to Grief

"Be not afraid to feel though grief may overwhelm you. Its breath gives life to your loss its thoughts to your precious memories. Be not ...

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The Gift of Patience.

"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious too greedy or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed ...

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Breathe. Expand.

"Life expands or contracts in proportion to one's courage" Anais Nin

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Authenticity is your Anchor

"When we ignore who we are at our core are remiss in the task of articulating the landscape of our inner world when we choose to live und...

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