Month: March 2026

I think people often are unsure when to attend therapy. For some people, therapy is only when everything is on fire. Other people may put it off for years. Or perhaps wait for things to get worse. Often, a crisis is what brings someone to therapy. Things like loss, trauma, illness, or when a relationship […]

“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.” (Gottschall, 2012, p. xiv) We all tell stories. Stories about ourselves, others, events… If we see someone buying flowers, we may imagine that someone is going on a date, or apologising […]

Iphones? Love? What do we actually need? American psychologist, Abraham Maslow, wrote the paper on the needs of people. Maslow proposed a hierarchy of needs. This hierarchy forms a pyramid with ‘base’ needs needed before reaching ‘higher’ needs. Beginning at the base, we have physiological needs. These needs include the basic conditions for life such […]