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Self-Criticism: Does it Really Lead to Self-Improvement

by Tim Hill
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  • Change / Self-esteem
  • 18 Oct

If you are like many people, you can be deeply self-critical. It seems like we are always nagging at ourselves about things we would like to change. Whether it’s your

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In the garden of your life

In the Garden of Your Life

by Tim Hill
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  • 28 Feb

There are many ways we can view our lives, and sometimes an analogy can be helpful. Though the use of analogy we can sometimes understand what’s going on in a

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Change is Hope

by Tim Hill
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  • 20 Feb

So many of us lack hope. This can be something that affects us for large periods of our lives; or it might be something that we only occasionally feel. Experiencing

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Overthinking It: Our Different Styles

by Tim Hill
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  • Anxiety / Change / Relationships / Self-esteem / The self
  • 29 Nov

Have you ever been told that you’re overthinking it? You might hear this from others; your partner, your friends or your colleagues. They might imply that thinking too much about

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Stigmatisation and Discrimination

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  • Grief and Loss / Self-esteem / The self
  • 17 Jul

The prevalence of mental health problems in Australia is high – currently, about one in four people a year experience clinical levels of anxiety and depression. Those affected often have

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Too Much Self-Blame Does No-one Any Good

by Tim Hill
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  • Change / Self-esteem / The self
  • 29 May

When people tell me their problems and we try to work out how things came to be this way, it usually boils down to the client feeling that their problems

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Patience and the Pursuit of Change

by Tim Hill
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  • Anxiety / Change / Self-esteem / The self
  • 08 Nov

Sometimes we know we need to change, but we doubt we can – and we don’t know how to do it even if it were possible. We feel that someone

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Psychologically, You Are Only Born Twice

by Tim Hill
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  • 23 Oct

When we come into this world, we come in with a number of personality characteristics and traits that we inherit from our parents. These characteristics and traits, which we might

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Resist Change!

by Tim Hill
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  • Change / Introversion / Self-esteem / The self
  • 11 Oct

We can often feel a great pressure from other people to change. For whatever reason, it can be hard to be accepted for who we are. We can find ourselves

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Our Need to Interfere: Letting Others Be

by Tim Hill
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  • 06 Sep

Sometimes we just can’t help ourselves, and want to get involved in the lives of other people. We sometimes can’t resist our need to interfere and control even those closest to

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The Seeds of Today Were Planted Yesterday

by Tim Hill
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  • Anxiety / Change / Self-esteem
  • 28 Aug

Life can be very tough. Many people find life difficult, with difficult work environments, unsatisfactory relationships, time and money pressures. We usually manage to keep our heads above water but

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Using Shame as a Weapon: Does it Work?

by Tim Hill
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  • 26 Aug

Each of us has someone that we wish would change. We have tried being supportive, understanding, helpful and directive, but still they remain unchanged. It can be extremely frustrating and

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Are We Prepared to Pay the Price of Honesty?

by Tim Hill
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  • Change / Relationships / Self-esteem / The self
  • 21 Jun

For many of us, it is important that the people around us are honest. We want to be able to trust what we hear. Conversely, when we are around people

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The Burden of Being Perfect

by Tim Hill
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  • 28 Jan

We all strive to be better at what we do; this is part of the way that we improve our self-esteem. Accomplishing things makes us feel good, and the better

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Soothing and Living with Your Inner Critic

by Tim Hill
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  • Anxiety / Self-esteem / The self
  • 13 Nov

Many of us have an inner critic that sits on our shoulder and judges all that we do. This constant stream of commentary and advice is undermining and can leave

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Self-Confidence Lies Sleeping

Self-Confidence Lies Sleeping: It Needs Waking

by Tim Hill
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  • 21 Oct

‘I suffer from a lack of self-confidence’ is a statement that many might make to describe how they feel about their circumstances. Implicit in this is the belief that we

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Everyday Misery and Illusion: What Will You Choose?

by Tim Hill
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  • 18 Oct

Freud once said that each of us needs to make the choice between a life of everyday misery and illusion. Even though he said this more than hundred years ago,

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we let ourselves down

Letting Ourselves Down: A Matter of Perspective?

by Tim Hill
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  • 17 Aug

We can sometimes feel that we are letting ourselves down. We have ideals about the sorts of people we would like to be, and the way we want to live

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Ideals, ambitions and skills

The Three Things You Need to Have a Healthy Mental Life

by Tim Hill
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  • Self-esteem
  • 01 Aug

When we sit down and really think about how different our lives are from how we would like them to be, the task of change starts to seem enormous. Relationships,

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