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Free Counselling — Who Pays?
There's a glaring contradiction involved in the way counsellors work with people to enable them to affirm themselves and the way they can appear -- either as saviours from above and beyond the daily struggle, as martyrs sacrificing themselves for others, or just as well-meaning people with no sense of their own value. Tags: in practice, motivation, therapy, work-life (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - April 18, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: in practice motivation therapy work-life Source Type: news

Unleash Your Creativity This Spring
It's Spring, a season of creative disturbance. Once out of the cocoon of Winter, everything starts to move and change. There's a mix of cold and sun, and everything's in flux; it can seem like one step forward and two steps back, yet it's all moving forward. Tags: creativity, in practice, seasons, therapy, writing (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - April 9, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: creativity in practice seasons therapy writing Source Type: news

Death, Stress and Chocolate
Good Friday is a time of darkness and depletion that comes right before the light, a time set aside to contemplate suffering. I was forcing my system on full steam ahead and it felt all wrong. Tags: anxiety and stress, mindful awareness (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - April 1, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: anxiety and stress mindful awareness Source Type: news

Self-Compassion, or Unconditional Positive Regard?
The act of intentionally extending compassion to yourself might seem counterintuitive, selfish, artificial, or just plain weird. This is where the concept of unconditional positive regard comes in handy. Tags: in practice, person-centred, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - March 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: in practice person-centred therapy Source Type: news

The Importance of Safety — But is There Any Such Thing?
A sense of safety is a crucial human need, and working with trauma and anxiety is all about finding this sense of a secure base in the world. However, given our position in the universe, whizzing around on a rock in the middle of infinite space,with pretty much the only certainty in our life being the fact that we will die, is it not a little crazy to imagine that we are safe? Tags: anxiety and stress, in practice, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - March 19, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: anxiety and stress in practice therapy Source Type: news

The Power of Admitting What Really Hurts
Keeping up the illusion that something doesn't hurt is so very energy-consuming -- you really have no idea until you stop doing it and experience the energy which is freed up for use on other things, or simply for enjoyment of life. Tags: relationships, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - March 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: relationships therapy Source Type: news

The National Snow Breakdown
Britain's recent brush with snow leaves me wondering what would happen to our infrastructure if something more significant actually happened. Tags: public health, relationships, responsibility, society (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - March 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: public health relationships responsibility society Source Type: news

Sense of Self and the Traffic in Kathmandu
If I am an individual whose rights and autonomy are sacred, then someone else's path crossing mine can feel like an infringement, even a cause of anger. But what if I feel like a part of a collective whole? Tags: anxiety and stress, boundaries, mindful awareness, society (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - February 26, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: anxiety and stress boundaries mindful awareness society Source Type: news

The Mass Killing Meme: What Can We Do?
My sense is that the cases of young terrorists and young school shooters have strong similarities in terms of underlying anger, hurt, and other feelings, coupled with an inability to communicate those feelings and be heard. Tags: death, ethics, politics, public health, relationships, violence (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - February 19, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: death ethics politics public health relationships violence Source Type: news

Stop Suppressing Your Potential
How can we best tweak and optimise our mental machinery for peak performance? Drugs and some forms of meditation are offered as means to the goal. But what if 'savant' skills were actually in some sense our mind's default, before we all got so educated, and so distracted? Tags: intelligence, medications, meditation, mindful awareness (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - February 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: intelligence medications meditation mindful awareness Source Type: news

Creative Automatic Writing: Getting Past the Censor and Generating Energy
Our internal dialogues plan, worry, criticise, and take up a lot of mental energy. If we are finding life stressful, writing can be an ideal place to stage an intervention and regain our energy, our creativity, our mental space. Tags: anxiety and stress, writing (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - February 6, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: anxiety and stress writing Source Type: news

Intuitive Painting: A Dialogue With Your Heart
Intuitive painting often starts with a question that can't be answered in words. In the dance of form and colour, the sensual enjoyment of the paint, the excitement of not knowing what is coming next and sometimes just making a mess, some kind of an answer always comes. Tags: creativity, mindful awareness, therapy (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - January 29, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: creativity mindful awareness therapy Source Type: news

Can I Love You and Hate You at the Same Time?
Are pain and anger in themselves toxic forces or violent acts, that negate the love we feel for those who are close to us? Does this uneasy sense of contradiction cause us to hold those 'negative' emotions inside ourselves? Tags: in practice, relationships (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - January 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: in practice relationships Source Type: news

The Heart Sutra and the Neuroscientist
The neurosurgeon and the Buddhist practitioner are both intimate with the reality that between the atoms of the electrochemical dance of the brain lies an emptiness of anything at all which is solid and unchangeable, anything on which to lean. How to live in such a world? Tags: book, brain, meditation, mind-body, mindful awareness, neuroscience (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - January 15, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: book brain meditation mind-body mindful awareness neuroscience Source Type: news

Creative Regeneration
Bathing in my own attention, my breath, exercising the 'coming back' muscle whenever I get distracted, is what I call basic meditation. Every moment in this state is a moment of creative regeneration. Tags: anxiety and stress, meditation, mindful awareness, work-life (Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features)
Source: CounsellingResource.com News and Features - January 8, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Luczaj Tags: anxiety and stress meditation mindful awareness work-life Source Type: news