In this short and powerful video John Gottman, , describes the sure-fire attitudes and behaviours that mess up personal relationships. In many years of research about the “masters” and “disasters” of relationships he’s identified four ways not to handle the stresses and strains of being in relationship. Criticism Defensiveness Contempt Stonewalling In the video Dr [...] Read more »
Announcement: The EFT Collection
I’m pleased to announce the arrival of my new e-book “The EFT Collection: 12 Tapping Techniques For Practical Wellbeing“. This e-book is a compilation of some of the EFT/Tapping techniques that I have developed over the years as an EFT Practitioner and Trainer and written about on this website. The techniques presented in this book [...] Read more »
Who do you want them to become?
Seth Godin is one of my favourite authors. He is an American business writer, but don’t let that title put you off. He is a fascinating and persuasive combination of marketer, philosopher and humanitarian. In his latest book The Icarus Deception he writes about how culture conspires with our innate programming to stop us from [...] Read more »
A musical explanation of fear
The Amygdaloids are a New York City band made up of scientists who shed their scientific garb at night and take to the stage with songs about love and life peppered with insights drawn from research about mind and brain and mental disorders. The band was formed by Joseph LeDoux the neuroscientist who worked out [...] Read more »
Mr Rogers On Seeing The Newtown News Differently
After the recent traumatic events in Newtown, Connecticut it would be easy to lose hope under the weight of media coverage. The news media focuses relentlessly on the violence and destruction of the event and the pain and grief of the victims and their families. Just watching the news can be a traumatising event (and [...] Read more »
Intensive Care Units Can Be Traumatic
It probably won’t come as much of a surprise to you that being in an Intensive Care Unit can be a traumatic experience, but an article from the BBC, Intensive care ‘has lasting impact on mental health’, reports on research about just how negative an experience it can be. If you are in intensive care [...] Read more »
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