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Recommended Reading

Articles from the blog, grouped by what you might be looking for. None of this is a substitute for therapy, but it might help you feel less alone in whatever you're going through.

From the blog

Anxiety & Panic

→Your Panic Attacks Aren't Random
→Why Your New Year's Resolutions Keep Failing
→The Ritual Isn't the Problem

Relationships & Closeness

→Why Do I Push People Away?
→The Fortress You Built to Protect Yourself Is Your Prison
→Therapy Speak Is Ruining Your Relationships
→Is Couples Therapy Worth It?

Self-Worth & Identity

→I Don't Know What I Feel
→You're Not Lazy, You Might Be Ashamed
→The Performance Trap
→The Voice That Isn't Yours
→The Exhaustion of Passing

Grief & Loss

→When Grief Gets Stuck
→When 'Too Much' Was Always About Them
→What BPD Actually Feels Like

Understanding Therapy

→Therapy Isn't About Fixing You
→You Shouldn't Have to Explain Yourself to Your Therapist
→Why Therapy Isn't Working
→The Limits of Short-Term Therapy
→The Great CBT Experiment
→Why I Became a Male Therapist
→What Psychodynamic Therapy Actually Does

Work & Modern Life

→Leadership and Mental Health
→Rewriting the Code
→We've Turned Discomfort Into a Design Problem
→You Don't Need Better Mental Health

TV & Film Psychology

→The Severance of Therapy
→Why You Can't Stop Watching MAFS Australia
→What The Roses Gets Wrong About Couples Therapy
→Pluribus: What It Gets Right About Emotional Avoidance
→Will Byers and the Wounded Healer
→Heated Rivalry Ending Explained

Living Abroad

→When Your Entire Identity Gets Lost in Translation
→Therapy in English for Expats in Tokyo
→Therapy in English for Expats in Berlin
→Therapy in English for Expats in Dubai

Reading only takes you so far

Understanding something intellectually and feeling it are different things. If you're ready to go deeper, I offer psychodynamic therapy in Croydon and online.