Supporting Mental Health and Emotional Well Being
A Passionless Marriage “My wife and I used to be passionate lovers. Now we’re just housemates.”I regret to say I’ve heard this numerous times in the counselling room. A male client recently asked me, with genuine confusion in his voice: “Why isn’t sex there anymore?” He’s not alone in wondering this. Many couples find themselves …
Passionless Marriage: my client wants to know why sex is not there anymore. Read More »
You create your values to protect yourself from your fears 01/21 It would be fair to say our values are the boundaries we have adopted to fit in and be accepted by society. They are socially constructed and as such do not belong to us but our tribe. The twin fears of fight or flee …
We live in a sea of expectations 11/17 Children feel comfortable when they behave in the way they feel they are expected to behave. That is to say in their childhood interpretation of the expectations of their care givers. And they develop unconscious coping strategies to gain approval and praise. But when children become adults …