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building resilience - Tim Hill Psychotherapy

Building Resilience: Why Failure is Essential

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  • Emotions / The self
  • 10 Nov

We would all like to live a life where we didn’t fail at anything. We can feel that it’d really be ideal if everything we turn our hand to was

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Mixed Feelings? That’s Entirely Natural

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  • Emotions
  • 26 Oct

We sometimes have experiences where we feel more than one emotion. In these situations of mixed feelings, we can get confused by our responses, unsure about what we are feeling

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Too Many Regrets: Living With Your Past

by Tim Hill
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  • Emotions / Grief and Loss
  • 28 Sep

Many of us live our lives with strong regrets. We think about the things we could have done and didn’t do; we think about the things we did and wish

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Emotional Safety: How to Create It

by Tim Hill
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  • Emotions / trauma
  • 10 Sep

At times, when our life is difficult, we can seek a place of emotional safety. When we find it, such a place can be comforting and can allow us to

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burning your bridges

Burning Your Bridges with People? Try This Instead

by Tim Hill
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  • Emotions / Relationships
  • 15 Jun

Sometimes when we’re in arguments with people and are feeling strong emotions like anger and frustration, we can say and do things that go too far. When this happens, the

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In a Bad Mood? This Can Help

by Tim Hill
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  • Emotions / The self
  • 25 May

We all have times when we are in a bad mood, and we’re not very pleasant to be around. We might not know the reason, and sometimes we don’t know

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Working Out our Strong Feelings Safelty

by Tim Hill
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  • Emotions / Relationships
  • 19 May

Sometimes we have strong feelings that trouble us, and we know we need to work through them. It would be a natural tendency to talk to people close to us

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one womans voice

Power: One Woman’s Voice

by Tim Hill
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  • 25 Oct

Our simplistic view of emotions It can be tempting to think simplistically about emotions. We see people expressing emotions and we say, “This person is expressing fear, this other person

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Change Is So Hard

Hanging On: Why Change Is So Hard

by Tim Hill
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  • Change / Emotions
  • 14 Oct

Sometimes we find ourselves in very uncomfortable and difficult circumstances; we are challenged and highly stressed by aspects of our life. It can feel like it’s almost impossible to keep

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How to Feel More

by Tim Hill
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  • Change / Emotions / The self
  • 20 Aug

Sometimes we feel nothing. We can find ourselves in situations that others find quite emotional but we feel unaffected. Sometimes we can wonder what all the fuss is about. At

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the insatiable

Our Drives: Satisfying the Insatiable

by Tim Hill
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  • Emotions / The self
  • 23 Jun

It’s a commonly held view that we want too much as adults because we were too spoiled when we were young. More particularly, as adults we focus excessively on compulsive

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our partner's past

Relationships: Coping with Our Partner’s Past

by Tim Hill
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  • Emotions / Relationships
  • 31 Jan

We all bring history into our relationships, and sometimes that history is difficult for new partners. For some, it is very difficult to accept the things that our new partner

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Remote Control: Pressing Pause on Life

by Tim Hill
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  • Change / Emotions
  • 29 Jan

When we talk about changing our lives, we often use the analogy of a remote control. We talk of rewinding our life to a better time or fast forwarding to

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out of control

The Uncontained: Being Out of Control

by Tim Hill
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  • Emotions / The self
  • 10 Nov

For some people, it can be hard to contain and control how they feel and how they act. This is extremely frustrating for the person and can cause difficulties in

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people are complex

People are Smart, People are Complex

by Tim Hill
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  • Change / Emotions
  • 05 Apr

Many of us face problems with our own behaviours that we find difficult to solve. Sometimes these problems have dogged us for years and we’ve tried for a long time

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Artist in Therapy

The Artist in Therapy

by Tim Hill
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  • Emotions
  • 27 Mar

When artists talk about the source of their creativity they often feel it comes from their emotional side. This is especially true regarding the pain that they feel. When they

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show your feelings

The Expression Expectation: ‘Show Your Feelings!’

by Tim Hill
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  • Emotions
  • 23 Mar

Those contemplating counselling or psychotherapy start with the automatic idea that they should be working towards greater expression of what they think and feel. Whilst this might be right for

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The Unconsious: Secondary Rationalisations

by Tim Hill
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  • 23 Oct

One of the difficulties of being human is that we have both a conscious and an unconscious. By definition, we are aware of what’s in our conscious and unaware of

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What is Emotional Fitness (And Do You Have It?)

by Tim Hill
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  • Emotions / Relationships / The self
  • 16 Oct

We seem to have a pretty clear idea about what physical fitness is. I think that many people would also agree on what mental fitness is. However, when it comes

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accept the negativity

Accept the Negativity in Ourselves and Others

by Tim Hill
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  • Emotions
  • 07 Oct

When we feel someone is being ‘too negative’, we can sometimes want to ‘correct’ this with positive thinking. However when we do this, we often find that our efforts are

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Winners and Losers

Being Connected: Winners and Losers

by Tim Hill
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  • 1012
  • Emotions
  • 01 Oct

Last weekend saw two finals; of the AFL and the NRL, and these games, like countless other games and finals. illustrate some important things about us and the way we

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Red Anger or Blue Anger – Which Do You Have?

by Tim Hill
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  • Emotions
  • 21 Sep

We all experience anger in our lives, but some people feel that they have way too much. They see the effect on the people around them; their anger is something

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book-review

Book Review: Emotion and Culture

by Tim Hill
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  • Emotions
  • 02 Sep

Kitayama S. & Markus H. R. (editors) (1994) ‘Emotion and Culture: Empirical Studies of Mutual Influence’, American Psychological Association, Washington DC This was a book that I picked up for

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Australians and Emotional Display: Nah, Mate

by Tim Hill
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  • Emotions
  • 14 Aug

Although we sometimes find our emotions troublesome, we also to some extent take them for granted. We assume that the things we feel are the same as the things that

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