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Do You Fear Your Prejudices?
How we deal with prejudice in our own lives, at an individual level, makes all the difference to the impact we have on society at large. Tags: empathy, ethics, person-centred, responsibility, society, violence (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - May 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor Tags: empathy ethics person-centred responsibility society violence Source Type: news

What Will We Leave Behind?
How much of you do the people closest to you really know? What do they understand of the person that you are, as something distinct from the things you do? And when the time comes, inevitably, will your story die with you, or will it remain with your friends, your spouse, your children? Tags: bereavement, death, existentialism, meaning, parenting and children, relationships (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - April 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor Tags: bereavement death existentialism meaning parenting and children relationships Source Type: news

When Great Ideas Become Lead Weights
Here are five ways to help preserve the life and growth of a good idea when circumstances mean we can't follow it up right now, ways to stop it becoming just another weighty addition on a "to do" list. Tags: creativity, mindful awareness, writing (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - March 25, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor Tags: creativity mindful awareness writing Source Type: news

Practitioners, How Good is Your Referral Tracking?
Almost every mental health practitioner tries in some way to keep track of referrals. But do you know how your referrals compare to your conversions? How about the impact of primacy and recency effects? And would you be surprised to learn that nobody finds you via your own website -- even if you think they do? Tags: in practice, marketing, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - January 15, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor Tags: in practice marketing therapy Source Type: news

Grief: What ’ s the Point of Talking About It?
'Isolation' seems too feeble a word to describe the part of grief that is aloneness, since it suggests a world out there which we could connect with were it not for our state; it is, rather, the kind of aloneness that tells us there is nobody there at all. Tags: bereavement, death, denial, relationships (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - November 26, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: bereavement death denial relationships Source Type: news

Investing in Loss, and Crowdfunding
It's only superficially ironic that work on Creative Regeneration and making a healing refuge should leave me so wiped out. Tags: anxiety and stress, creativity, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - November 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: anxiety and stress creativity therapy Source Type: news

Disentangling Our Nervous States
A heightened state of anxiety seems to be the norm. But have feelings really taken over the world? Is it enough to just calm down? Tags: book, in practice, online mental health, politics, society, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - November 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: book in practice online mental health politics society therapy Source Type: news

Black Box Politics
There's a standard piece of advice frequently offered by psychologists and counsellors to people who are struggling to make sense of a challenging relationship. That piece of advice works pretty well when trying to understand politicians, too. Tags: decision making, empathy, in practice, politics, relationships (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - October 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor Tags: decision making empathy in practice politics relationships Source Type: news

The One Way to Healing
What if there were one true way to healing -- one method certain to deliver wellbeing and the resolution of whatever problems you might want to throw at it? Would you be tempted to give it a try? Tags: in practice, meaning, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - October 8, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: in practice meaning therapy Source Type: news

Letting Go vs. Softening
In meditation, the suggestion to 'let go' can seem a bit abstract, a little either/or. Softening, on the other hand, is different. You can't get it wrong. Tags: in practice, meditation, mindful awareness (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - September 24, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: in practice meditation mindful awareness Source Type: news

Secrets of Creativity – Raw Feelings that Carry the Context
When we just paint, or just do anything, we are working from our raw feelings. These feelings carry live connections to the whole context of life: everything which has ever happened and is happening right now, more than the rational mind could ever hope to be aware of. Tags: book, creativity, focusing, mindful awareness, pregnancy and childbirth (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - September 10, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: book creativity focusing mindful awareness pregnancy and childbirth Source Type: news

Meditation Instructions: Who ’ s Guiding Whom?
Guided meditations have never been my thing. I've generally found them cringey, annoying, or simply superfluous to requirements -- the very antithesis of the experience I was having, or wanted to have. Tags: in practice, independence, meditation, person-centred, therapy, trust (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - September 4, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: in practice independence meditation person-centred therapy trust Source Type: news

12 Steps — Identifying With the Addict
The person is always more -- infinitely more -- than the addict. Thinking of the addict as your real nature, liable to erupt at any moment if you're not careful, may be helpful as a practical measure, but is it really true? Tags: addiction, book, in practice, responsibility (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - August 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: addiction book in practice responsibility Source Type: news

Russell Brand on Liberation from Addictions
Can the 12-step programme liberate us from a cult of individualism and materialism? Enjoying a good feeling from simply being alive may be a natural thing, but it's not the default these days; we need to actively work on it. Tags: addiction, book, mindful awareness (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - August 20, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: addiction book mindful awareness Source Type: news

Making Your Own Decisions
Once you get to adulthood, you generally like to feel you're calling the shots. But are we in a position to decide anything at all of our own free will as individual agents? Tags: decision making, meaning, mind-body, responsibility (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - August 13, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: decision making meaning mind-body responsibility Source Type: news