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Last month we looked at the inner critic and I provided ways to help reduce its power and your engagement with it. Another effective way to disengage from your inner critic is to tap into the strength of your inner...

In therapy I refer to that judgmental and critical voice in our heads as the ‘inner critic’, often referred to as the self-saboteur too. The inner critic is analysing our every move, and its presence is often berating. From personal...

It has been found that our brain can process up to 70,000 thoughts a day, with signals travelling at 300 miles / hour (Cleveland Clinic). It is no wonder that you hear people say, ‘I just got caught up in...

Anxiety can be defined as a feeling of fear, dread, and uneasiness in relation to a future event perceived as a threat. Some examples of anxiety are health, performance and social. It is estimated that in the UK alone, over...

In 500 words I have written my personal experience and my aims as a mental health sport therapist. The year is 2009, I’m 16 years old and had moved into my final two years at school, the academic pressure was...

Signs, impacts, origins and strategies This topic is one that resonates with me after having therapy myself for people pleasing. I had to learn how to create boundaries and overcome my anxiety around people’s opinions of me. Read on to...

I understand that a lot of questions can arise in relation to having therapy, both prior to starting and what to expect from subsequent sessions. I hope this blog will help to answer some of those, make you feel more...

I always like to view ourselves as a work in progress. I always follow the saying, "progress not perfection", this way, even the smallest changes that we make are meaningful. As a new year commences it is only natural to...

This season brings happiness and warmth into many households, yet, this time of year comes with it’s own challenges. I would like to highlight a couple of these challenges and how best to deal with these. Extra load I don’t...

A therapeutic relationship is like any other relationship with trust being at its core. If you asked a group of people what trust meant to them, you would likely get a different response from each.  So I want to make...

Sport. Athletes. Elite athletes. Champions. Human beings. Mental health. Performance anxiety. Emotions. Human beings. Self-identity and self-worth. SUPPORT IS KEY. I feel as though I could stop this blog here, in less than twenty words I have written my key...

On October 4th, here in Sweden, we celebrated 'cinnamon roll day', a sweet pastry that has been marked in the Swedish calendar since 1999. I lost count of the number of posts I saw on social media of delicious looking...

Therapeutic Coaching for me can be likened to someone drawing back the curtains  in a dark room. This type of therapy helped me enormously in my recovery from  Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and since then anxiety-related issues. This integrative  therapy is...