Psychotherapists and Counsellors Answer your Questions

Our inability to listen properly. It is played out and modelled for us on the world stage. There is so much conflict in public discourse. Very few really take the time to listen deeply before...

Our inability to listen properly. It is played out and modelled for us on the world stage. There is so much conflict in public discourse. Very few really take the time to listen deeply before responding. Very few are respectfully curious and take the time to hear and understand the views of others and, indeed, why they have them.

We live in a highly traumatised world such that trauma and survival states have become normalised. Consequently there is a disconnect between our conscious selves and our deepest selves which leads to...

We live in a highly traumatised world such that trauma and survival states have become normalised. Consequently there is a disconnect between our conscious selves and our deepest selves which leads to an array of dis-eases, distortion and imbalance. I am sure we could think of any aspect of our human world today and identify how this is manifested in that aspect. There is also great appetite and energy for change as well, and we must find a way to maintain hope that things can be better and to fuel real change. We can do this by working at the individual level, which has an influence in turn on the collectives.

The world is a tough place - it's difficult to narrow down all the problems to the one that is the most significant! I think a lot of it boils down to individuals in power that base their decisions on...

The world is a tough place - it's difficult to narrow down all the problems to the one that is the most significant! I think a lot of it boils down to individuals in power that base their decisions on greed and self-interest rather than taking the time to be honest, vulnerable, caring, and compassionate.