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Help Your Client Find the Perfect Career
There are two great Career Development Theories you can use to assist clients to find the right career pathway. These both measure personality traits that are fairly stable over time. Even in this rapidly changing job market there should always be a role available that fits. One is the Holland Theory of Vocational Types and the other is the Myers Briggs Type Indicator.
You Can Change Your Life
For a long time I was afraid of change in my life, but I’ve come to realise there’s no such thing as change for the worst, there’s only ever changes for the better. Indeed, everything changes; it’s the natural order of things. Therefore, when change comes embrace it because it means that you’re on the move and you’ll be OK.
A Centering Exercise for Repetition
Learn peace and joy: When strong feelings emerge, and you want to react, take a few moments to do the following centering exercise, repeating it as often as you can. Sit down in a quiet safe place and take three deep breaths…….Now take two more breaths more slowly…..more deeply……down into your diaphragm… Using you senses, notice
Dealing with
Depression
It is normal and very common for any of us to feel ‘down’ or ‘blue’ from time to time.
This may be determined by what is going on in our lives or the weather or when we are sick or have hormonal ups and downs. These low moods come and go – like all emotional states, they are not permanent – and we usually are able to work
Dealing with Grief and Loss
Each and every one of us changes in some way after the death of someone we love, or the breakup of a significant relationship in our lives. Things will never be the same as they were, as we lose part of ourselves when someone close to us dies. We probably never really fully get over the death of someone so close to us,
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
The regular practice of progressive muscle relaxation can go a long way toward helping you to better manage your anxiety, face your fears, overcome panic, and feel better all round. Benefits will be obtained by practicing at least once a day, for 15-20 minutes. Twice a day is ideal, but once is better than not at all. Assume a comfortable position…
Anxious Minds
There are many different levels of ‘anxiety’ and we may all experience most of these in a life time.
They range from heart stopping terror at one end of the scale to a sense that ‘something isn’t right’ at the other end.
We may be so anxious that we have difficulty sleeping or have constant worrying thoughts, being easily startled
Calming Breath Exercise
The calming breath exercise was adapted from the ancient discipline of yoga. It is a very efficient technique for achieving a deep state of relaxation quickly. It can be a potent technique for halting the momentum of a panic reaction when the first signs of anxiety come on. How to do the Calming Breath Exercise…
Ways to Resolve Anger
There are healthier ways of expressing anger than have been taught. Anger is a normal part of being human, but how we express our anger effectively is a skill that needs to be learned. If we just continue to repress anger rather than deal with it, anger builds up and up, and is often later misdirected and expressed in ways that can
Response-ability is Ours
Recently I’ve been pondering on what it is to be a Victim, and I’ve come to the conclusion that we’re spending more time living in VICTIM-hood than necessary. I think that’s because many of us are taught to avoid emotional pain by blaming it on other people. This creates the notion that we’re not responsible for how
Transference and Counter-Transference
Attending therapy in a couple or family situation can be a very stressful experience. More often than not it is a space of exploring situations that can be very confronting, and uncomfortable to say the least, to all involved. The purpose of therapy is to bring healing into relationships and it is the role of the therapist to model
Best Resilience Project
Resiliency, then, is the ability to recognise and identify limited thinking, being able to pause it, reflecting on and identifying the truth, locking that truth into place through repetition and then acting from that focus. The key to resiliency in depression is self-awareness, becoming intimate with your self (in-to-me-see), and being
Reflections on
Grief
Avoid bottling stuff up. It can be tempting to put on the brave face and go to gatherings and pretend to be what you think people expect you to be. Keeping things to yourself may mean that the tension builds up inside you and you find yourself feeling more stressed and upset as a result. Finding a way to get out what you are
Emotional Self Care
Physical and verbal abuse is an outward expression of frustration. Frustration runs on a continuum from slightly frustrated to extremely frustrated or anger. Frustration occurs when mind and emotion are in conflict, when thoughts interfere with the flow of love. The mind holds an expectation of how things should be,
Alcohol and Suicide
Research shows that 50% of adult and adolescent suicides are impulsive and have not demonstrated any recognizable preparation or premeditation. Suicide rates are actually increasing and the rate of recognizable signs and symptoms is decreasing. This statistic is alarming and is very prevalent in young adolescent males.
Relationship Myths
No two people are the same. We are all genetically, physiologically, psychologically and historically different from our partners. We have been conditioned differently, value things differently and have different priorities. We all view things in different ways. Sure, compatibility in many areas is good for a relationship, but being different is okay.
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