counselling Archives - Rewriting The Rules

Plural mindfulness / mindful plurality

In this post two of my selves, Ara and Max, discuss how plurality can unlock features of mindfulness which can otherwise be difficult to access...

Two years on from 2017 when it began, we’re still in the midst of a moral panic about trans. Daily news stories across all sections...

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance (#TDOR), a sad day indeed which remembers all the lives lost as a result of transgender-based hate or prejudice....

Here’s an old post on mindfulness, revamped now that I’m returning to the topic for the 2nd edition of my book Rewriting the Rules. What...

Samantha Harvey recently sent me a great set of interview questions for her project on mental health. She kindly agreed that I could share my...

A topic I’ve written about on here quite a lot is the idea of ‘staying with’ feelings. After the Pixar movie Inside Out I wrote all about...

The excellent folks at the Open University have just helped me and a couple of colleagues – Naomi Moller and Andreas Vossler – to put together...

I’ve made my first attempt at a zine! For the last few months I’ve been thinking a whole lot about the social side of mental distress. It...

There’s a great new book out about sex therapy which draws on all kinds of perspectives to present an alternative way of working with people...

A post from 2012 announcing the launch of the Enduring Love? Project. I ended up publishing a self-help book based on this project in 2016:...