In this month’s blog exploring the book and course “Deeper Mindfulness” by Mark Williams and Danny Penman, we start to set the scene for an exploration of the feeling-tones that underpin every moment of our lives. Unless we train ourselves to name and notice what’s going on, moments often pass us by and we miss out on the potential to make life feel more bearable, more joyful, and more interesting.

In this month’s blog we are continuing the theme of slowing down in therapy. Over the next few months we’ll be using Mark Williams and Danny Penman’s “Deeper Mindfulness” framework and book, to explore feeling tones or Vedanas and how noticing these shifts can help us in therapy.

This month’s blog applies the theme of slowing down for the festive holidays. Less Ho, Ho, and more No…No!

This month’s blog continues to explore the theme of slowing down in therapy. This time we explore the concept of relational depth - what happens between you and your therapist and where meeting together lands inside us….

In this blog post I explore a lesser known offshoot of CBT called Schema Therapy. This therapy works with our internal world or system of “parts” to help us solve some of the ways we sabotage ourselves without knowing why we do it.

In this blog post I explore the nature of unwanted intrusive thoughts, what they are, why they cause us so much trouble and what we can do about them.

In this blog post I explore the best ways to stop ourselves from spiralling when events or people trigger a trauma-based stress response. The Five Anchors come from Resmaa Menakem’s (highly recommended) book “My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialised Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies" and are themselves based on the work of Dr David Schnarch.