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Extending trust can be a risky business, and it’s often worth it. We have a choice with trust, we can grant it, or we can wait until...

Dissociation can be a challenging psychological symptom to work with. When dissociated, people experience themselves less directly. ...

“The fear of receiving resonates in the deepest levels of the psyche. To receive is to let life happen, to open to grief and loss, to...

In recent months I have been delving into Brown and Elliott’s comprehensive book about Attachment Disturbances in Adults. It’s a...

My weekend poem this week is called The Abyss. I wrote it in 2011. It speaks of trauma, of the fragmentation inside that happens when...

I’ve recently been reading Daniel Brown and David Elliott’s work about attachment difficulties, which focuses on how to help adults who...

When people come into therapy to talk about relationship problems, they often feel that there must be something wrong with them. This is...

Here’s a short clip of Gabor Mate talking about addiction, which he defines as “any behaviour that a person finds relief from and...