The holiday affect
Amidst personal and collective pain, a lot of us can feel resistance to the pressure to keep up with the
Psychotherapy reflections
10. On resilience and returning home
We often hear how we need to build resilience in this time. There is immunity resilience. What about psychological resilience?
9.Rediscovering Your Persona: Transitioning into Social Life
Apropos to our times, the persona is a kind of ‘mask’ we put on. The persona is the superficial posturing
8. The Impact of Othering on Identity
How do we see outside the binary of either/or in these divisive times? If the tension of current times is
7. On productivity
What is the unconscious impulse to DO and be REALLY busy even in a pandemic, even in lockdown?
6. On renewal
What many folks may not realise, spring commencing in April on is the highest rate for suicide here in the
5. Shadow Work: Integrating Our Darker Emotions for Wholeness and Authenticity
Our wounds, our sorrows, our nastiness, or dark side is all comprised in the shadow of our psyches. We may
4. On coping
Without judging our coping mechanisms as good or bad, let’s just take a step back from how you fill your
3. Adaptation
How adaptive we are to this protracted stress of the pandemic takes on different emotional shapes and compensatory behaviors.