Sam Parrott counsellor

01/06/2023

Absolutely! How are you voting today? Xx

28/04/2023

The emotionally intelligent one in the family is scapegoated all too often. Stay true and brave!

08/09/2022

Our suffering, our disengagement, our relationship challenges, and our other life difficulties are almost never solved by thinking in the same old, automatic way.

Being emotionally agile involves being sensitive to context and responding to the world as it is right now.

07/09/2022

This is always with me as a golden rule!

06/09/2022

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/06/psychologist-devastating-lies-mental-health-problems-politics?utm_term=63176e8312011db28fa13944ee30e3be&utm_campaign=BestOfGuardianOpinionUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=opinionuk_email

Society’s understanding of mental health issues locates the problem inside the person - and ignores the politics of their distress, says psychologist Sanah Ahsan

23/07/2022

Depression a result of childhood experiences and not some random chemical imbalance over which we have no control - how hopeful is this, if we learnt it we can unlearn it too!!

Writing in The Conversation, Professor Joanna Moncrieff and Dr Mark Horowitz (both UCL Psychiatry) report on their new research showing no clear evidence that serotonin levels or serotonin activity are responsible for depression.

17/07/2022

Learn to lean into your feelings they are a message that we shouldn’t ignore!

12/06/2022

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapple.news%2FAqaraP7XXTbOLNAOpPkVGQg%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3RPJlPdAfXMssmTWWtCMIvpNI5-4BkEfwBQ4h0KfrjHjjGDZsE9jtxHBc&h=AT2KODQEKGAjjFpxX0MgN1bJVWXV0n6STwE1GLEi9Du5rtSaMl-ZgfAKanlDm7w8DRqscW-ebq4WEKlIULfZDpbVK3btb67quVHWIy2HB1SnjoBQFcVjMExy1prkXDVlo28WZrgA5VPU&s=1

Respect envy. Learn your stress responses. Be ungrateful – yes, really. Kate Leaver asks mental health professionals what they wish we all understood about human emotion You’d think after more than a few decades on this earth, we’d have our emotions nailed, yet we are constantly evolving the w...

23/05/2022

17/03/2022

Love this TED talk - its not so long so easy to fit in to a day have a listen!

La psychologue Susan David partage comment notre façon de faire face à nos émotions façonne tout ce qui compte : nos actions, notre carrière, nos relations, notre santé et notre bonheur. Dans cette présentation émouvante, pleine d'humour et qui a le potentiel de changer votre vie, elle remet...

27/01/2022

Remember you are not your thoughts or your feelings - they are a part of you for sure but they dont tell me who you are. All too often we define ourselves by them - i feel anxious, therefore i am anxious. What about all the other things you are….. we are never defined by one thought or feeling alone. Confront and comfort yourself, then go and be all the parts of you that you are! 😍

02/12/2021