There wasn’t one single moment that made me leave Brazil. It was a collection of moments, feelings, and deep truths that built up inside me like waves — until they could no longer be ignored. But there was one moment when I knew: I can’t live here. Not like this. Not as myself. One of […]
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✨ The Most Important Relationship You’ll Ever Have — A Therapist’s Reflection on Self-Esteem, Self-Love, and Emotional Healing
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Jul
Jul
When I work with my clients — whether they come to therapy for anxiety, depression, stress, low self-esteem, relationship issues, or simply wanting to reconnect with themselves — there is one deep truth I always return to: the most important relationship you will ever have is the relationship you have with yourself. The way you […]
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“Chapter One: Trust, Presence, and the Journey from Brazil to London: My Journey of Mindfulness, Resilience & Radical Self-Care”
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Jul
Jul
When I was growing up, my environment was unpredictable. There were times when it was very, very good — full of warmth, love, and laughter. And there were other times when it was deeply painful and chaotic. In that environment, I learned to sense people deeply, to read the energy in the room, and to […]
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Jun
Jun
It was 4 years ago when I wrote my last blog and as it happens it was about thanatophobia: the profound fear of death https://esperansa-therapy-swansea.co.uk/confessions-of-a-counsellor/ little did I know I was going to go for four years without writing another one, and today I am here to share with you my own experience of grief, for […]
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Nov
Nov
In my childhood, when I was first faced with the reality of life and death, I remember thinking: “is mother nature having a laugh? How am I supposed to live life pretending nothing is going to happen? How can I now continue going with the flow and hoping for the best? How can I get over the […]
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Accordingly to a review of published studies, one of the consensus highlighting the significance of chronic pain in the UK, suggests that up to 8 million people in the UK live with chronic pain (htt://tinyurl.com/z95wqoy). Pain represents a cascade of physiological, immunological, cognitive and behavioural effects, with an important emotional/affective component. In addition, psychological factors can […]
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Jun
Jun
Women twice as likely as men to experience anxiety, research finds,” The Guardian reports. A new review that attempts to get a global snapshot of the prevalence of anxiety disorders identifies a number of vulnerable groups. There are various types of anxiety disorder, but generally they involve feelings of unease, such as worry or fear, that […]
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Jun
Jun
Anorexia is not about a fear of getting fat, but rather a pleasure at losing weight, experts reveal,” says the Daily Mail. The headline oversimplifies the results of a study that looked at women’s responses to photos of women of varying weights. In the study, 71 women with anorexia and 20 without were shown photographs of […]
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Jun
Jun
UK scientists have developed a blood test to help doctors pick the best drug for patients with depression,” BBC News reports, somewhat prematurely. It is currently unproven whether such a test, based on measuring inflammation, would improve treatment outcomes. Previous research has suggested high levels of inflammation – which is not just a reaction to infection, but […]