"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses." – Lao TzuRelationships are about trust from both partners and take open communication to maintain. When difficulties arise each person can lose the ability to compromise and tensions can result ...
Date Posted: April 17, 2016
Categories: Couple Counseling, Marital Counseling, Relationships & Marriage
Written By:
Andrew C Wright HCPC registered (UK)
Image Credits: pixabay.com (CC0 Public Domain)How do I begin to define the mother-daughter relationship? I for one think that it's very dynamic and complex.Its dynamism is due to the natural progression of life. Mothers start out as primary caregivers and role models for their young ...
Feb 26
Categories: Family Problems, Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance, Parenting, ...
Written By:
Miss Psychobabble
I’ve heard so many people talked about this. When someone has mood swing, she or he would asked me, “Am I have bipolar?”, “I felt ups and downs mood so I must be have bipolar, isn’t it?”, “Lately, I can’t control my emotion anymore and it ruin my ...
Feb 18
Categories: Bipolar, Depression, Mood Swings / Bipolar
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Picture this: someone walks up to you today and, quite matter-of-factly, informs you, “You’re an addict.”How would you react? You might recoil and bristle in indignation. You might wonder at the sanity of this person, and not without reason either. Why, you hardly drink at all ...
Jan 20
Categories: Addictions, Drug Addiction, Gambling Addiction, Love addiction
Written By:
Maryann Wei
British poet Thomas Eliot once wrote in 1935, “Human kind can not bear very much reality.” 30 years later, he as well as his loved ones were forced to bear reality. Thomas stopped writing – and breathing. It’s painful but it’s fact.
Jan 9
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Adult psychological ...
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
Life is stressful in modern times. Each one of us are multitasking to fit in the numerous demands of life daily. Often amidst the craziness of daily demands, life seems to spiral out control. We feel stressed, helpless, often wondering how we ended up where we are now.The good news is instead of ...
Jan 8
Categories: Career Development and Change, Happiness, Stress Management, ...
Written By:
Piyali Chakrabarti
A classic experiment almost 4 decades ago revealed that elderly residents of nursing homes who bore the onus of nurturing a potted plant outlived their counterparts who did not. More recently, research has extended advantages of indoor ...
Dec 16
Categories: Control Issues, Self-Care / Self Compassion
Written By:
Maryann Wei
This infographic on the topic 'Emotional Intelligence and Your Career' which looks at how EQ (emotional intelligence) is the new IQ.See the full infographic below: Created by Brighton School of Business and Management ...
Dec 15
Categories: Career Development and Change, Emotional Intelligence
Written By:
Psych Mat Asia Editor
Many people have heard of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance), and they generally find that these stages could reflect their grieving process, at least to ...
Dec 1
Categories: Grief, Loss, Bereavement
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When we lose someone through death, it is common for grief, sadness, anger or anxiety to appear sometimes. While these mood issues might seem like depression, the experience of grief is quite different. Grief is precipitated by distress over the loss of another e.g. death. Generally people could go ...
Dec 1
Categories: Depression, Grief, Loss, Bereavement
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The metaphor of an iceberg architecture has been widely used across both popular and academic literature, perhaps most dominantly in two areas: to represent the layers of culture (and hence “hidden” culture), as well as in Freudian terms, to describe the conscious and unconscious ...
Nov 12
Categories: Blended Family Issues, Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child ...
Written By:
Maryann Wei
Yesterday, I was sharing with a couple that the first stage of trust begins inside the mother's womb. Not after birth, based upon current research in prenatal psychology. Inside the mother's womb, the fetus-child is already sensitive to the love of both mother and father even long before ...
Nov 11
Categories: Abortion, Parenting, Suicide Prevention
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
Image Credits: pixabay.com (CC0 Public Domain)As much as people despise the "other woman" or the "other man", they are there for a reason. History suggests that powerful men tend to gather great numbers of women and as we all know, history can repeat itself. Modern times ...
Nov 6
Categories: Ending a relationship issues, Infidelity, Love addiction
Written By:
Miss Psychobabble
For years now I have been taking myself on a little urban pilgrimages within the green pockets that line the city. As always, while I am out there I am in so much awe of how just a small dose of conscious engagement with the natural world can be so uplifting for the mind and body. Sometimes - ...
Nov 4
Categories: Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance, Mindfulness, Self-Care / ...
Written By:
Anoushka Beh
The minute that tiny baby lands in your arms you are only supposed to feel joy, or so you’re told.Having a baby can be difficult and challenging. It’s hard to admit to feeling isolated, overwhelmed, and afraid. These feelings are common — so why is there a code of ...
Nov 3
Categories: Couple Counseling, Depression, Family Problems, Mental Health in ...
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In a recent meeting of SEN professionals I was asked to host one of the six round table discussions. The topic I chose was ADHD in the classroom and how to manage it. I was astounded to see that three quarters of the group joined me to discuss that particular topic, demonstrating that it is ...
Nov 3
Categories: Adult ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Child ...
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