What you practice grows stronger are you practicing mindfulness and compassion or are you practicing frustration and criticism? What we practice grows stronger, we know this now with research into neuroplasticity. We sculpt and shape our synaptic connections based on repeated practice. When we activate different parts of the brain, whether it’s attention and…
Anxiety, Stress and Depression through the Social Brain A large number of clients come to see me for anxiety, stress and depression, often believing there is something inherently wrong within them. We seem wired to think we are separate, perhaps because what links us is invisible to the naked eye. It’s difficult to see that…
The family: an emotional system. Most therapeutic frameworks view a person’s behaviour as emerging from an individual or from a dyad (mother-child), Bowen Family Systems Theory however, views human behaviour through a ‘family systems’ lens. The human family according to Bowen Family Systems Theory is a naturally occurring system, a product of evolution, like all…