Introduction
Being aware of your physical health is becoming the norm, yet our mental health can be a different matter. For many to consider your mental health needs is a sign of weakness. Something to be avoided, kept secret or suppressed. I often talk about our 'journey of awareness'; getting to know ourselves, accepting ourselves, and finding compassion for the way we are. I look at different aspects of this journey and why it is a strength to go on this journey and not a weakness.

Many of us carry life scripts, it’s as if at some point in early childhood were given our script, the role we were to play in our family, developed through the interactions with family members. Both the giving and playing out of these scrips is often out of our awareness, but can form the way we interact with ourselves and others in adulthood. In this blog I explore my insights on life-scripts, including a scenario based on some frequenting occurring life-scripts and how it can be different between siblings.

In busy, demanding lives we all need time to just zone out, switch off and lose ourselves in whatever is our chosen method. What if however, the zoning out isn't that bit of 'my time', but instead it’s an escape from who we are and how we feel and becomes addictive. In this blog I explore my insights into how what we use as an escape can end up controlling us.

We are all unique, and as such we are made up of different aspects of who we are; we which I refer to as our 'parts, a term often used in therapy. In a journey of self-acceptance, it is worth spending time becoming aware and accepting all of who we are. Which aspects interact well and which ones collide causing us much stress and confusion. Some parts we were born with, maybe inherited while others we developed as we interacted with life. Some parts we embrace while others we try to deny. This blog is all about parts and I hope it inspires you to go on your own journey to identify, connect with and embrace all aspects of who you are.

Do you worry that you are coming across as too needy? Alternatively, you may have long mastered the ability of pushing aside your needs to the point where you don't even notice them. Our needs don't go away, and often they are human natural needs which were not met in our childhoods and now leave a void which we unconsciously try and fill. In this blog I explore some of these needs, how they can still affect us and what we can do when we recognise the void left when they are not met.

Shame; the overwhelming sensations which just comes over us and stripping us of any self-confidence and preventing connection with ourselves and others.
In my first blog on shame, I explored what shame is and why some of us are plagued with it. In my second blog I looked at the difference ways we experience our shame and how we can feed it. In this blog on shame, I am looking at how we can learn to reduce its impact, and even though it may still lurk waiting to be triggered, we can ensure it no longer has any power us and doesn’t prevent us from being all we can be.

Is it that some of us are just born anxious, or did something happen in our lives which made us anxious? Is anxiety something we have to live with and submit to or is it something we can control, master and overcome? This blog is all about anxiety, understanding what anxiety is, how it affects us and what we can do about it.