Extreme Fear in the Time of Covid The only thing we have to fear is fear itself! The above quotation from an American Second World War time president has become [...]
And suffered intense pain and a nervous breakdown as a result of my choices I was in my early thirties when I first started looking inward, which I conceived as [...]
I've only just started to realise that the cold can be therapeutic. It's not for everyone, I know. But why don't you try it out? Wim Hof, from the Netherlands, [...]
Ways of Facing Fear Fear, like pain, is often a good thing. It's normal to be afraid of dangerous creatures, such as funnel web spiders. It's only when fear is [...]
Do you ever wake up with a song playing in your head? With lyrics by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, this one, I discovered, was originally recorded as a demo [...]
Psychology is a relatively recent area of research and treatment for “inner” emotional problems, with Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) creating his famous brand of psychoanalysis in the late nineteenth and early [...]
GREEKS of ANTIQUITY I had my first taste of philosophy at Armidale Teachers College in 1961. This was one of the options that I chose to study, apart from the [...]
The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (1875-1961) created many of the enduring terms for the mind and for the unconscious that have enriched literature and humanity during the twentieth century. Certainly [...]
Swedish love coach, Carolin Dahlman, gave a presentation to our writers' group on the idea of networking in order to be published. Most of the large group of writers who [...]
I must tread carefully here... I have to be careful when discussing the concept of left versus right brained people, as I'm married to a scientist, who also happens to [...]
