Friendships: What’s Healthy & What’s Not
January 8, 2025
As a counsellor, I know how vitally important healthy friendships are to our overall well-being. A life without friendship can feel empty and meaningless if
As a counsellor, I know how vitally important healthy friendships are to our overall well-being. A life without friendship can feel empty and meaningless if
Rejection can feel like a punch in the gut and if you’ve ever been rejected, you will probably agree that it can be one of the worst feelings you have ever experienced. Rejection hurts; it’s uncomfortable, debilitating, overwhelming and it can feel like death.
When we begin a new relationship, it can sometimes cause us to feel a little nervous or even anxious, and this is completely normal. There is some risk associated with relating to someone we’re attracted to and hoping to build a relationship with. There’s the risk we will love them more than they love us, the risk that they will reject or abandon us or that we’ll find out they weren’t who we thought they were. We can also experience the thought that ‘something is sure to go wrong’ or ‘it will all come crashing down’. But if we are resilient, the risk will be worth it, and the anxiety will fade over time.
Sometimes, life can throw us some fairly significant curveballs, and curveballs can pack a punch.
When clients contact me through my website contact form, they usually state that it’s for one of five reasons; stress, anxiety, depression, relationship issues and
Kate (not her real name) came to see me recently when her sense of overwhelm became too difficult to bear alone. She felt as if
The foundation of a genuinely fulfilling life is always built on a set of solid values. Values are our guiding principles; the lens through which we view ourselves and our world.
In the world of online dating today, many of us have become familiar with the expression ‘ghosting’. Being ghosted is when someone abruptly ceases to
As we journey through our lives, we form beliefs about ourselves and our place in the world which develop from the time we were infants.
Boundaries are important for the health of all of our relationships. At times, some of us may have struggled to put up healthy boundaries with