'Psychological Health' Category
Love What Is
Just a quickie to notify you of an excellent post by Tom Stine, of whom I have written before.
It is a post called Love What Is. It is about the place of acceptance in the process of change - a hugely important topic. He writes about it with understanding, simplicity and clarity. It really is [...]Perfectionism
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Does perfectionism have benefits?The connection of perfectionism with discontent and misery is pretty clear. Whatever experience we have or object we encounter or person we meet, it is likely that they could be ‘better’ in some way. The person may be a saint - but they dress sloppily; the house [...]Five Things To Do For The Child Inside You
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For the past few days I have been staying with a single mother I know with two children (4.5 and 7). It was quite an experience and I feel I have learnt some things from it.1. Our world is hostile to children. From the size of all the stuff in our world, to [...]How to Update Your Past
What does it mean to be an adult (psychologically mature)?
From the point of view of Transactional Analysis (usually abbreviated to TA) there are two answers to this question. The first answer to this is the qualities which people have in their relationships to others and the world. There are three of these qualities: [...]Three Benefits of Being Childlike
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We carry our childhood with us. Often we focus on the wounds that we have left over from then. This is probably because it is mostly therapists who write about this kind of thing and they tend to see wounded people. For most of us our childhood also contains lots of good stuff [...]A Psychological Health Checklist: awareness, spontaneity and intimacy
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These three qualities come from Transactional Analysis (usually abbreviated to TA). (Transactional Analysis is a psychotherapy invented by Eric Berne and his friends - people such as Muriel James, Dorothy Jongeward, Stephen Karpman, Claude Steiner and many others - on the West Coast of America in the 1950’s and 1960’s. [...]S & M
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A couple of posts ago I asked for questions - and I sure got one. Here is a part of it: “I’d like to know what you know about abused and abuser, masochist and sadist. The thing that most interests me, is the possibility of one person understanding [...]
