What makes your heart happy? A question that is often met with a blank stare because the reality is that we rarely spend time considering...

The final post in this series is focused on emotional expression. This is another challenging part of regulating emotions that requires...

We looked at an overview of emotions here so now it's time to start exploring what to do with them! Have you ever been told that you need to learn how to control your emotions? Or that you feel ‘too much’? Me too. The problem with these types of messages is that they never tell us how to manage our emotions and are often about other people’s discomfort with our feelings. Emotional regulation refers to our ability to exert control over our emotions. We all have strategies f

Anxiety, depression, anger… we spend a lot of time looking at emotions separately, but we often do this before having a basic understanding of emotions as a whole. Knowledge of what emotions are, their believed purpose and our beliefs about them can be helpful. So, let’s take a look at emotions… What is an emotion? Even this is not a straightforward question to answer! There are lots of definitions floating around and theories about ‘primary’ emotions but I’m not going to bor

Whilst there is a lot of discourse around therapy in the media, it can still seem a bit mysterious and you might be wondering what you...

If you've had therapy before, the answer to the question of what you can talk about in therapy might seem obvious. But for those coming...

While there are more conversations in the media about therapy, it is still difficult to know what to expect from a first session if...

Once you've made the big decision to invest in yourself and engage with therapy, you have to navigate the confusion of finding the right...