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13/05/2014
All About Anxiety
By Gill Wier
It’s Mental Health Awareness week (12th – 18th May 2014) and the focus this year is on raising awareness of anxiety. Here is some information about a...
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25/02/2019
Why I Prefer "Eating Imbalance" to "Eating Disorder"
By Gill Wier
This post was contributed by Naomi Nygaard who specialises in working with eating issues and addiction. This week February 25th - March 3rd 20...
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06/12/2019
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Book Review - Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
By Gill Wier
I have just got round to reading Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig. Published in 2015, it tells the story of his mental health breakdown aged 24 and...
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19/03/2020
Telephone / Video Counselling Now Available
By Deb Holmes
We find ourselves in unprecedented & concerning times. Daily government updates regarding Covid-19 for some people, are reassuring, but for others t...
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19/06/2020
Why do I ALWAYS mess up?
By Bay Whitaker
Always? Really? That can’t literally be true. In the branch of philosophy called logic, words like “always”, “never”, “nothing”, “everybody” are ca...
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14/07/2021
On Guilt: Fact, Feeling or Both?
By Bay Whitaker
Guilt is a state that can be incredibly destructive to people. And our clients often say that they're deepy troubled by feeling guilty. It can...
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13/12/2021
Let's talk about climate change
By Gill Wier
A few weeks ago during the COP26 conference, I watched a Panorama documentary about how extreme weather conditions are impacting people in different p...
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10/03/2022
Finding safety again in relationships
By Laurence Keith
Some people get mixed up between threat and soothing in relationships and are then unable to access the calm, safe spaces they need to heal. How can w...
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13/05/2022
Why Don't You - Yes But
By Bay Whitaker
One of my favourite books is called “Games People Play” by Eric Berne. Published in the mid-60s it was a pop psychology best seller, looking at diffe...
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07/12/2022
Sheffield’s Pioneering Mixed Abuse-Survivors’ Groups
By Bay Whitaker
Last month I was excited to read in Therapy Today, our trade journal, about experiences from SRASAC's therapy groups where survivors of sexual abu...
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03/04/2023
Dealing with Anxiety
By Erin Loughery
In the UK, anxiety is one of the most common mental health disorders, with recent statistics stating that over 8 million people are experiencing an an...
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27/09/2023
Befriending Your Anxiety - an Existential Perspective
By Gill Wier
On 23rd September 2023 I was in London for the BACP Private Practice Conference to engage with the topic of anxiety. The most inspiring point of the d...
