With Halloween just around the corner, I thought it was a good time to write something about ‘scary thinking.’ 🎃 Scary thinking can show up in many forms: it can be dark, obsessive intrusive thoughts that might involve being harmful to others (it’s common for post-partum women to experience this) or …
There’s this misconception that we must ‘manage’ our emotions and that some emotions are ok, but others aren’t. Why? Why do we feel it is wrong to show some emotions and not others and why do we think we have to manage them? Emotions are literally Energy in Motion. Left …
When I’m working with children, I use a very simple analogy of the weather to help them understand how human emotions work. So all humans are born perfectly psychologically well. This might seem like a radical idea, but as I’ve said before, have you ever seen a depressed baby? Our …
