sensitivity

A new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that between 2009 and 2015, rates of self-injury among girls aged 10-14 years skyrocketed from 110 per 100,000 Emergency Room (E.R.) visits to 318 per 100,000 visits. The rate for older teen girls doubled to 633 per 100,000 E.R. visits. Rates for […]

It’s 8:30 on a Friday night and I’m seated at the bar of Revoluciòn de Cuba in Milton Keynes’ egregiously titled Theatre District. A mixologist who clearly loves his job has just made me an off-the-menu fruit mocktail, its taste dominated by the sour punch of lime. I’m chatting with friends while Caribbean beats pulse […]

I recently saw a Facebook meme that showed four teenage girls taking a selfie. Paraphrasing Winston Churchill’s epic cry during the Battle of Britain in 1940, the caption read: “Never in history has a generation taken so many photographs of itself achieving so little.” The flood of selfies on social media suggests that those creating […]

In other blogs I have written about how high sensitivity, anxiety, doubt, panic, low self-esteem and low confidence are a family of related feelings. Such feelings consequently give rise to a family of behaviours as a means of coping with them. These including panic attacks, binge drinking, eating disorders, addictions and self-harm. These behaviours form […]

On this site I’ve written extensively about unconscious shame. Over the years, my understanding of the power of unconscious shame has grown. One of the areas where my knowledge has grown is around generational trauma. This is unprocessed trauma and shame that we inherit from our parents and that affects us from birth. This trauma […]