Today’s session is about how to find a positive way through when you’re used to organising things your way, but now your partner keeps undermining you. Individual habits, parenting approaches & differences of opinion can always cause irritation in relationships. Lockdown can make these minor issues blow up fast. [...]
Today’s session is about what to do when your kids demands are relentless and you keep giving in. Setting boundaries can be hard at the best of times but is even harder under lockdown. This session explores how the three elements of differentiation: identity, connection and responsivity come together [...]
Today’s session is about what to do when you find yourself working from home and procrastinating. There is lots of valuable advice on the internet for how to work from home effectively. Sometimes we can know it all but we still feel stuck and unable to get things done. [...]
Today’s session is about feeling helpless because you're stuck in lockdown and can’t support your family. The battle against COVID-19 is being fought by the care-givers. The NHS and other key workers who prioritise other's well-being above their own. Their work is amazing. But in lockdown we are not [...]
Today’s session is about how to survive (and thrive) with your other half under your feet all day Every relationship system (whether a family, group of flat mates or work team) creates particular ways of being with each other. We might call it group culture or recognise it through [...]
Today’s session is about the superpower Focusing. It’s a superpower because of the way it enables us to connect with how we’re feeling inside. It helps us gain insight and can release powerful shifts in the way we relate to the challenging circumstances we find ourselves in. I love [...]
Today’s session is about what to do when you’re feeling overwhelmed with home-schooling. Session #1 introduced the ideas of how we catch anxiety, hold it in our body and want to bind it somehow to reduce the pressure we’re feeling. Today we’re thinking about how to stop our fears [...]
Today’s session is about toilet rolls (it couldn’t not be could it?) Offering a differentiation perspective on the experience of emotional contagion and why we couldn’t help ourselves. In order to halt the spread of this emotional “virus" we first need to get the big picture. So today I’m [...]
As my private practise has moved online during lockdown, I’ve been thinking about what I might be able to be able to support the wider community. I’ve decided to offer regular virtual therapy sessions. Life has changed really fast over the last few weeks. We are all faced with [...]