Benefits of a home yoga practice

Photo by Ron Lach on Pexels.com When we hear the term "home yoga practice", we are likely to have an image of someone who looks a certain way doing a daily hour long practice to perfect a sequence of poses. Whilst that might be nice for some people, that's certainly not what my home practice …

Realistic self-care for exhausted therapists

I burnt out in my first job as a qualified clinical psychologist but I don’t think I recognised it as burnout until the second time this started happening to me. At the time, I knew I was exhausted all the time, was experiencing a few other physical symptoms and just wanted something to make me …

Self care for therapists

How to look after yourself as a therapist or applied psychologist. I responded to a query from a fellow therapist on Facebook yesterday. Not someone I know but someone who sounded like they were experiencing burnout, was taking some time off, planned to focus on self-care and was interested in what other therapists in the …