In particular, I can help with the following:
ADDICTION (INCLUDING DRUGS, ALCOHOL, SEX, GAMBLING, SMOKING)
“The question should not be ‘why the addiction?’ but ‘why the pain?’”
ANXIETY
“Anxiety is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you very far”
BEREAVEMENT
“He who carries his own light need not fear the dark”
BIPOLAR DISORDER
“Bipolar disorder is a mood system that functions like the weather. It’s often independent of the things that happen in your life”
DEATH ANXIETY
“Death is the inescapable endgame of our life, it fills us with terror………The conventional remedy is to avoid thinking about it”
DEPRESSION
“Evaluation may indeed reduce one’s performance. Fearing failure, one begins to fail”
EATING DISORDERS
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change”
GENDER DYSPHORIA
“Rather than trying to remake the body to confirm with thoughts and feeling, can we find healthy ways to move towards accepting the reality our bodily selves?”
INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS
“The hardest battle is to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else”
LONELINESS
“Each of us inhabits a world fully known only to ourselves”
OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER (OCD)
“All obsessions represent an avoidance of something more painful”
PHOBIAS
“The anxiety stemming from phobias often creates more havoc than the thing itself”
RELATIONSHIP ISSUES
“We are only as needy as our unmet needs”
SELF HARM & SUICIDAL THOUGHTS
“Self-harm often comes about due to a feeling of a lack of control. If we can regain control over our lives, this can be overcome”
SEXUAL ISSUES
“Often our craving for contact is accompanied by terror of real intimacy”
SHAME & GUILT
“Shame forbids what the law does not prohibit”
STRESS
“When we have been prevented from learning how to say no, our bodies may end up saying it for us”
TRAUMA (INC. ABUSE)
“The hippocampus is suppressed during traumatic events, which can affect memory. Although this can reduce the conscious impact of pain, it can prevent the events from being processed correctly – which can lead to future suffering”