By Mark Tyrrell People often run into trouble when they assume that they can do or have something – success, a wonderful relationship, a world-enhancing book under their belt – but don’t plan the steps that will lead to such accomplishment. They sort of hope that things will just fall into their laps. Celebrity shows [...]
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By Mark Tyrrell When your life goes wrong it’s very unpleasant and sometimes it can feel as if it has gone totally wrong. Of course, some things do go ‘totally wrong’. However, a lot of stuff that goes really badly doesn’t go completely badly. Sometimes things you feel have gone totally wrong have, when you [...]
By Mark Tyrrell When you understand about people’s basic emotional needs you can identify what might be likely to trigger challenging behaviour and what might actually help reduce challenging behaviour, and lead to a calmer environment generally. Taking the needs of your child or teenager into account can make it easier (and quicker) to identify [...]
By Mark Tyrrell We all know about the pink elephant phenomenon. As soon as I say “Don’t think about a pink elephant!” you are instantly more likely to think about a pink elephant. (You just did, didn’t you!) This is not just folklore, either. Back in 1987, research conducted by Richard Wenzler and Daniel Wegner [...]
By Mark Tyrrell A Guest Post from Dan Jones – Solution focused hypnotherapist Many parents of challenging teens who have come through my doors develop three particular skills that really help them to help their teens change their behaviour. These three skills often appear paradoxical, and can sometimes seem, and feel, counter-intuitive. They are so [...]
By Mark Tyrrell Clinical depression is never just ‘in the mind’. Emotional disturbance, especially when it is prolonged, will always have an impact on the body. Physical factors are not the commonest cause of depression, but however it is caused, it certainly has physical (‘somatic’) consequences. Some of these physical consequences can feel terrifying to [...]
By Mark Tyrrell A Guest Post from Dan Jones – Solution focused hypnotherapist I have worked with hundreds of parents of young offenders and young people at risk of becoming offenders to reduce and prevent future youth crime and anti-social behaviour. Parents were given an average of six support sessions. From this brief intervention alone [...]
By Mark Tyrrell In the Master Series article on herd mentality, I talked about how the instinct to go with the herd can stop us being our own person. I mentioned the research that shows that a whacking 75% of us will prefer, at least some of the time, to go along with what the [...]
By Mark Tyrrell If depressed clients are able to think about the future at all, the prospect can be bleak, even terrifying. At the heart of depression lies hopelessness – a sense that things will inevitably stay as bad as they are, or get much worse. Our depressed clients can feel so overwhelmed by their [...]
By Mark Tyrrell Don’t talk with your mouth open! Why? Because it’s rude! Why? Because it looks horrible! Why? Why? Why? The ‘why-mania’ of children can fast track wrung-out parents to the nearest gin palace. Why? Because it can. But when we stop asking “Why?” we stop thinking clearly, if at all. Take psychotherapy. Why [...]
