📣Really pleased to announce that our book ‘Attachment-based Practice with Children,Adolescents & Families: Understanding Strategies & Promoting Positive Change’ is now available to buy 🙌🏽 Inspiring to work with @Lydia_Guthrie @cbaim + Ezra Loh on this💫 https://t.co/fRjOpVPHNq

The banned “Dead Loop” of Olga Korbut in the 1972 Olympics. It was the first and last time the trick was documented.

A 107-year-old Chinese grandmother pulls out a sweet from her pocket and gives it to her 84-year-old daughter.

Ever had a case that fit a DSM label… …but your gut said, “Something’s missing”? We default to quick, categorical diagnoses. But in psychiatry, often diagnostic understanding starts by thinking backwards. When influences run from molecules → families → society, pattern

Nobody has a personality anymore. Now you are always late not because you are forgetful, but because of ADHD. You are shy not because you are sweet, but autistic. You love deeply not because you are romantic, but anxiously attached. My latest for GIRLS: https://t.co/7uozQKyJSI

"Emotions are not reactions to the world; they are your constructions of the world." Fascinating read on how emotions are made

Nancy McWilliams notes that shame becomes adaptive “by regulating experiences of excessive and inappropriate interest and excitement and by diffusing potentially threatening social behavior.” It works to curb self-absorption and immorality, in small doses.

I’ve been playing with the idea that relationships tend to fall into one of three patterns 1️⃣ Hierarchical. One person’s needs/wants take precedence over other’s 2️⃣Transactional. Each gives something to get something in return 3️⃣Mutual. Two people coming together as whole

As the 15th of November approaches, I find myself once again facing a date that never gets easier — the anniversary of my beautiful son, Matthew Leahy’s, death. 💙 Matthew was just 20 years old when his life was taken from him while in the care of the mental health system that

No matter how many times I watch it, it's such a big broadcasting accident that it makes me laugh all the time.

🆕 New post just dropped (3 min read) ▶︎ Kintsugi for the Soul Relationships grow through rupture and repair. So does psychotherapy. full text 👇

You can understand the problem here without knowing anything about IFS. Without a deep respect for the principle of neutrality, a therapist WILL become a guru or a cult leader with a team of gurus. The only question is how bad of a guru will they be. 1/7

Chilling story, worth a read to everyone working in the therapy, trauma and coaching spaces

I was going to add a comment, but I think anything I add could only detract. A must read for mental health professionals.

Suicide is a leading cause of death. It leaves ripples of trauma that go on for generations. It is arguably the biggest public health problem we face. And we don’t really talk about it. Many seem to completely not understand what states of mind might lead to it. Why? 1/3

Clients come to therapy all the time asking for a specific kind of treatment that may or may not be clinically indicated. They may come asking for “couples therapy” when one or both are dealing with a serious MH problem that needs individual treatment. They may (and often do)

"My generation is obsessed with treating every trait as a symptom of a disorder: You’re not shy, you’re autistic; you’re not forgetful, you’ve got ADHD," writes Freya India.

‘The way in which narcissistic women abuse is more likely overlooked…’ I met Chartered Psychologist @DrAvaGreen. https://t.co/7XwOUy8jPl

Carl Jung, an all-time paragraph