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laurenstreetcounselling
- Oct 1, 2020
- 3 min
Is your positivity toxic?
Good vibes only please! I am going to breathe in positivity and breathe out negativity! Just be positive! How many times do we hear phras...
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laurenstreetcounselling
- Aug 12, 2020
- 5 min
When communication goes wonky
On average we speak between 7,000 & 20,000 words a day (Brizendine, 2006) but how much do we hear? I am a busy therapist so I imagine I a...
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laurenstreetcounselling
- Jun 16, 2020
- 3 min
Do you have Covid-fatigue?
How many times have you heard the following phrases "during this time", "these unprecedented times", "coronavirus crisis", "the new norma...
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laurenstreetcounselling
- Apr 29, 2020
- 3 min
When the setbacks strike........
So how is everyone doing? I'll be honest, I've found this time a little stressful. I've not written a blog for a while as I didn't feel m...
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laurenstreetcounselling
- Mar 16, 2020
- 1 min
Coronavirus: How to protect your mental health
Coronavirus
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laurenstreetcounselling
- Feb 5, 2020
- 3 min
A different kind of conversation.......
A different kind of conversation
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laurenstreetcounselling
- Nov 29, 2019
- 3 min
Emotional responsibility & me
I've gone back into the therapy room for this month's blog post and looked at what's been discussed frequently between myself & my client...
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laurenstreetcounselling
- Oct 29, 2019
- 4 min
The importance of boundaries!
Usually I have a long list of things to blog about but for this month's issue I've been drawing a blank. I am not usually stuck for ideas...
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laurenstreetcounselling
- Aug 28, 2019
- 3 min
Is it perception or reality?
What is reality? It sounds like such a simple question but doesn't always give us the answer we'd like. Albert Einstein put it like this ...
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laurenstreetcounselling
- Jul 30, 2019
- 3 min
The art of self-acceptance................
Acceptance - what is it? how do you learn it? can you lose it? It's such an easy word to say but sometimes so difficult to do. As a thera...
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laurenstreetcounselling
- Jun 26, 2019
- 3 min
Decisions, decisions, decisions!
Do I? Don't I? How often do you find yourself at a crossroads trying to make a decision? Decisions are a daily part of life, some studies...
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laurenstreetcounselling
- May 14, 2019
- 3 min
Why is failure not an option?
It just so happens that the usual week for my monthly blog post also falls on Mental Health Awareness Week. It seems as if mental health ...
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laurenstreetcounselling
- Apr 12, 2019
- 3 min
What is the role of a therapist?
Have you ever thought about doing something and decided against it as you thought it wasn't for you? How many times have you then been pr...
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laurenstreetcounselling
- Mar 8, 2019
- 2 min
It's all in the wording......
In one of my first blog posts I highlighted that only 7% of the way we communicate is through the words we use. So much is focused on how...
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laurenstreetcounselling
- Feb 12, 2019
- 2 min
We're all the same right? WRONG!
It's a common misconception that all therapy, and therefore all therapists, are the same. If that were true life would be boring wouldn't...
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laurenstreetcounselling
- Jan 7, 2019
- 2 min
New year new who??
Happy New Year to you all. How many of us now hear "new year new me", "what's your new years resolutions?" and "this is the start of a br...
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laurenstreetcounselling
- Nov 20, 2018
- 3 min
Who's afraid of the big C?
Can you believe we're only 35 days away from Christmas? I don't know about you but I feel that I've only just gotten over Christmas 2017 ...
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