What are Human Relationships?
What is Relationship Conflict?
Relationship conflict is when two or more people’s needs, views, or feelings clash and they struggle to find a fair way forward.
What is Belonging?
What is Belonging?
Belonging is the feeling of “I fit here and I matter here” with other people or in a place. It is the sense of being accepted, and included.
Organisational Behaviour
What are Social Structures?
Social structures are the “big patterns” in a society that shape how people live, relate, and organise themselves.
What are Affirmations?
What are Affirmations?
An affirmation is a way of saying “this is what is true and important about me” and repeating it often enough that it starts to guide how you think, feel, and act.
What is Love?
What is Love?
Love is the deep “yes” your whole being feels toward someone or something. It is a lasting care that wants the other to exist, to be safe, and to grow – even when it’s not easy, even when you don’t get what you want in the moment.
What is Caring and Care?
What is Caring and Care?
Care and Caring Care is the way we look after life—our own, other people’s, and the world we all share. It is made of attention, respect, and helpful action. Real care is not just a feeling; it is something you do. Caring for yourself Caring for yourself means treating your Read more
Does Making Make Meaning?
What is it to be Human?
Being human is messy, beautiful, painful, confusing, and deeply meaningful, and all at the same time. It means having a body that gets tired and breaks, a mind that thinks and worries, and a heart that feels joy, fear, love, shame, and everything in between
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Puppy-dog Syndrome and the Consequences of Avoidant Parents
This article looks into the basic family relationship, as driven by our genetic need for connection, support, nurturing and protection. We then propose a typical dysfunctional scenario, based on parents that are avoidant of that connection. It proposes that this scenario will result in children that will include a scapegoat, who may well develop C-PTSD based Stockholm Syndrome, before they are old enough to verbalise their long-term abuse. It also introduces a new term – Puppy-dog Syndrome, to describe one of the observable behaviours of children that have had this childhood.
Authenticity
Theory of Rationality and Rational Choice Theory
The Theory of Rationality, often associated with Rational Choice Theory, is a framework used to understand decision-making processes.