Dr David Murphy Physician Psychotherapist

09/11/2025

Finding peace in nature.
A relaxing sunset at Seacliffe Beach.
A perfect way to end the day.

08/28/2025

Psychotherapy can help to resolve many different mental health issues and help to find wellness and wellbeing. There are many types of therapy. It is important to find the model of therapy that makes sense to you and help you to makes the changes that you need to make.

08/17/2025

I used to be afraid of failing at the things that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter."
Bob Goff

08/12/2025

If you've ever been stuck solving a problem, it's likely that you have been immersed in the problem. We cannot solve a problem from within the problem. We need to find objectivity. Once we are looking at the problem, we start to find a solution focus.

08/12/2025

Have you ever been stuck solving a problem. It's likely that you were immersed in the problem.
We cannot solve a problem from within the problem.
We need to be objective to be able to solve a problem.
We find objectivity when we 'take a step back" and study the problem from a different point of view. We might talk to a friend or co-worker and get 'a second opinion'. Writing the problem out on paper will help us to find objectivity. Any sort of movement, such as walking, will help us find objectivity.
Once we have found objectivity, we stop feeling helpless and start to feel solution-focused.

05/14/2025

Change happens all the time. It's happening all around us.
When we resist change, we may feel hopeless or helpless or overwhelmed or angry.
When we adapt to change, by making healthy decisions, we achieve success and find wellbeing and boost our self-worth.

05/07/2025

We can't control the events that life puts in our way.
But we can manage is our response to all those events.

04/27/2025

Roger Federer on the kind of talent you can practice:

“Yes, talent matters. I’m not going to stand here and tell you it doesn’t.

But talent has a broad definition.

Most of the time, it’s not about having a gift. It’s about having grit. In tennis, like in life, discipline is also a talent. And so is patience.

Trusting yourself is a talent. Embracing the process—loving the process—is a talent. Managing your life, managing yourself.

These can be talents, too. Some people are born with them. Everybody has to work at them.”

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04/17/2025

Psychotherapy is about change - changing your mood, finding direction in life, healing trauma, managing emotions, changing habits. Psychotherapy is also about maintaining that change. The lifestyle change needs to be lifelong.

04/04/2025

All about judgment.

03/28/2025

All we see is obstacles when we take our eyes off our goals.

When we remain focused on a goal, then we don't see an obstacle. We see a problem to be solved.
Then, our unconscious mind starts to seek solutions, accessing our library of memories of past experiences.

Then, ideas for solutions pop into our conscious awareness. Problem solved.

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03/28/2025

All we see is obstacles when we take our eyes off our goals.

Let me know what you think in the comments.

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