Up Your ACT – Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Training, Feb 2020
Four of Australia's most experienced ACT practitioners will help you raise your ACT skill levels in this highly experiential training workshop. Australia-New Zealand Chapter of Association for Contextual Behavioral Science invites you to [...]
How do I stop thinking others are better than me because they have friends and I’m lonely?
The question above was asked on Quora recently. Below is my answer. You can’t. You have the illusion, common in the Western world, that you control your mind or thoughts. Let me show you that [...]
Busting the biggest mindfulness myths: part 2
“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Last week I busted one of the biggest mindfulness myths: that it’s a strategy to control [...]
Busting the biggest mindfulness myths: part 1
“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Like me, you have probably heard a fair bit about “mindfulness” over the past few years. [...]
Chinese Fingercuffs Metaphor
What you can do when everything you try makes things worse There are some problems in life that are like that. The harder you try to escape the problem or overcome it the worse [...]
Why do I get nervous?
Nervous stands up too It is my experience that no matter how easy the music or how many times I have delivered the workshop or no matter how simple the thing is that I need [...]
‘And so began my journey into the hell of panic disorder’
In this article Steve Hayes, the founder of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT, pronounced as the word 'act'), talks openly about how he began his own ‘journey into the hell of panic disorder’. Steve's openness and [...]
10 Signs Your Depression Needs Professional Help
It’s normal to feel down and lonely when life gets rough or when you lose a loved one. This kind of depression is what everyone is familiar with. It’s temporary, and you can move on [...]
What makes ACT of Living therapists 10% better?
Is counselling an effective therapy? Effective therapy is no accident. But many people hesitate to seek help for life’s challenges or to address psychological conditions because they are afraid counselling won’t work. This is [...]