(5 minutes read time) Susan Jeffers, Ph.D. (1938–2012), best known for her powerful book Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, spoke to something many of us sense deep down but struggle to live out. For those trapped in the fawn response—those who’ve learned to survive by...
(5 minutes read time) “I nearly jumped out of my skin.” When analysed, this idiom or saying, is what I describe as taking yourself out of your body because it seems like an unsafe place to be. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is widely regarded as a...
These days, the old ways of doing relationships just don’t work like they used to. Traditional marriage roles—where one person provides and the other keeps things running at home—don’t fit with how life and love work now. People want more than just a partner who ticks...
(5 minutes read time) Understanding Anger: The Hidden Emotion Beneath the Fawn Response In my work with hundreds of people across the world, one thing has become incredibly clear: many people are angry—and they don’t even know it. This is often because their anger was...
(5 minutes read time) The saying “resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die” is often attributed to Nelson Mandela, but its origins are more complex and can be traced back to earlier sources Resentment is a form of...
