'Articles and Series' Category
Health and Me Part One of Three
My interest in health really began in my 20’s (I’m now in my late 40’s). I’ll explain a little about my life to then, to give you some background, and then tell you the story of my interest in health.
Up to My 20’s.I was brought up a fairly serious evangelical christian. This meant that we [...]The Drama in Our Relationships: From Roles to Qualities
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There are moments in our relationships when we feel like we are going round in circles, or that “I’m tired of this game”. And yet we’re not clear how to stop doing this.
One way of seeing clearly what is going on at these moments is Stephen Karpman’s Drama Triangle. [...]The Drama in Our Relationships: Why Do We Do It?
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One useful way of looking at the unhelpful patterns in our relationships is by applying drama analysis. This was first done in a school of psychotherapy called Transactional Analysis by Stephen Karpman. He used the three standard roles of drama (persecutor, victim and rescuer) to look at the ‘dramas’ in our relationships.
Often when [...]The Drama In Our Relationships
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Do you know those arguments where you feel you have been there before? Where you feel that you can predict what is going to be said next? As if the people were following a script?
At times like this we have often slipped into a role. One of the simplest [...]Psychotherapy: a brief guide to what it is.
Firstly the word. Psychotherapy is made up of two words psyche and therapy. Psyche means ‘the mind’ or ’soul’ and therapy means ‘healing’. So psychotherapy is about healing the mind or soul. My quick and easy definition of what the soul or mind is: our thoughts and feelings. This can also involve our physical body [...]
The Healer and the Ruler #3: the dark side.
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The Healer and The Ruler are both archetypes concerned with power. This would have been even clearer if I had stuck with Carol Pearson’s name for the The Healer - The Magician. (In Awakening the Heroes Within - a book I recommend highly.)
Where there is power there is the potential for [...]The Ruler and The Healer #2: our relationships
Oil and Water
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How can the archetypes of the Ruler and Healer help us in our relationships? An archetype is a mythic figure that is both a part of ourselves and an area of our life.
The Ruler.
It i s important to say that being The Ruler does not mean being authoritarian [...]
