When I first started my counseling practice I had all these people coming to me complaining about not having willpower.
If only they had willpower they would tell me, they would be able to
- lose weight / get fit
- stop smoking / drinking / gambling / womanizing
- control their domestic violence / drug problem / children [...]
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About 3 months ago I opened up an intern program to pass on the skills I use in building my online businesses. The response was so great that I had 100 people go through it [...]
You might have heard many times that it’s okay to make mistakes.
If so, good.
But what sort of mistakes?
Has anyone ever told you what sort of mistakes to make?
As a small kid I used to enjoy watching on TV the enthralling game of darts.
I would marvel at big blokes standing back from a target with all [...]
The biggest problem with reading all the self-help literature is that so much of it is just ideas with very little real evidence to back it up.
Fortunately there are some notable exceptions.
But first, take a moment to do a bit of a self-assessment.
Do you want to have any of these changes in your life…?
- Better [...]
Our society seems to be suffering an epidemic of depression, stress and burn-out, with figures as high as 10% a year being regularly quoted.
As a medical doctor working exclusively in counseling and therapy I’ve observed people come to me over the years complaining of being stressed and burnt out.
They come with a wide variety of [...]
One of the reasons I wanted this web-site to be about self help rather than psychiatry, psychology or therapy, is because much of what people actually have as problems and limitations is not covered in the textbooks.
This is slowly changing however.
Psychiatry is finding labels for more and more, whether by extending current labels, such as [...]
I don’t often tell people I do hypnotherapy anymore.
Very few people distinguish between hypnosis and hypnotherapy ie hypnosis for a therapeutic purpose.
The explanation my first mentor used was that one was given Catholic approval by Pope Pius XII in 1956, and the other was not.
In casual conversations I got tired of the discussions about “Is [...]
I went to a medical conference on the weekend. It’s something I very rarely do.
Medical events tend to have people talking about things I either have no use for anymore, or that I disagree with. This one was more on the second category. But I still need to keep up my medical registration by [...]
The “universal healing method” called Emotional Freedom Techniques, also known as EFT (see EFT Is Bunkum? - Part 1) is almost completely lacking any worthwhile scientific evidence.
It’s founder Gary Craig, offers only anecdotal evidence and sheer numbers of examples. A quick search on the internet reveals many people who have not found benefit from EFT, [...]