Healing from Sexual Trauma: The Power of Presence
Sexual trauma, especially in childhood, is a profound violation of trust, safety, and identity. It leaves deep scars, often manifesting...
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How We Respond to Life's Challenges: Our Unique Nature/Nurture Profile.
During our earthly life, challenges and difficulty are constant companions for many of us. How we respond to these stresses, however, is....
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'Make Meaning of the Mean!'
Life consists of various experiences, some filled with joy while others present significant challenges.
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EMDR Benefits
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) has been shown to have a number of benefits for people with a variety of mental...
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The Ancient Deception (aka - a secret mental health formula)
Yes, there appears to be a secret and unique formula. It’s formula includes ‘self-image deception’, shame and isolation. Mental...
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Mentors, our young people need you.
In my therapeutic work with adolescents, it is so clear that we live in an age where a whole generation of young people are afraid to be...
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Medicating 'The Pain of Unlove'.
It’s heartbreaking to spend long periods of time with - many people, from many walks, referred for many things - to consistently find...
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Test or Con-test?
At the root of it all, aren't all life’s battlefields relational in nature? Isn’t it all a test to see if we will grow in intimacy with...
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Father
Separated Born of a Father, Mother umbilical cut. The search begins. Am I wanted, am I safe, am I loved? Life unfolds. The looks and...
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How to choose a Ballymena Counsellor?
Top 5 Tips on how to select the right counsellor or therapist in Ballymena and beyond.
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Counselling of the Heart
So I'm an integrative counsellor. I'm trained in working with thoughts (cognitive behaviour) and what I call the heart (subconscious...
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Conditional Love
Whenever I settle for conditional love then I run the risk of changing "who I really am" into "who they want me to be". Thought #1:...
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Beautifully Complex
"Beautifully complex. Partly accessible yet guarding dangerous depths. Fragmented parts that make me who I am. Often I scare myself....
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Relationships as important as air.
If I could reduce all of my motivation, all of my pain, all of my joy and all of my purpose into one word then what would that word be?...
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Beauty Transforms All It Lands On
When we cease to be surrounded by beauty, we cease to hope. We see things in grayscale. We look down not up. We focuss on our failures...
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No Shame in Reaching Out
It's funny, I don't feel ashamed going to a doctor when my leg is broken? So why should do I feel ashamed when I hurt inside and need...
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It's Tough Being a Teenager
Sharing this for all the young people in our wee town of Ballymena and beyond. Has there ever been a time in history where it was harder...
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The Power of Three
Over the years I've started to notice "things in threes". Whether it's blind mice, little pigs, musketeers or film trilogies there seems...
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Always a Rose
I rise and fall with their words and looks, blown by their wind and scornful quips. My heart exposed, it longs for home, it longs for...
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Mind Confusion
Confusion is such an enemy of Inner healing. Inside I know when something is so terribly wrong. The instantaneous, life threatening...
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