June 4: Online event with David Morgan!
Our esteemed TF Advisory Board member, Dr. David Morgan, will be in discussion with author Prof. Ian Parker highlighting his newly-published book, “Socialisms: Revolutions Betrayed,…
Psychiatric Categories and its Critique
I may choose an alternative label such as the child is “intense.” They engage with the world with an emotional intensity that provokes powerful em…
The Seven Ages of Women and Yoga
Cultural pressures and expectations are generally negative. To say "she is menopausal" is usually used to demean or humiliate a woman of a certain age…
D H Lawrence: Feminist or Anti-Feminist?
His women have sexual appetites, and orgasms, and sex before and outside marriage; they are presented without fetishisation or disapproval; such women…
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Do I need a vaccine if I already had COVID?
“It’s not just about you. All these precautions are important for protecting the health of the people around you. These are the people you interac…
Comedian Stands up for Infertility and Other Events
Rhod Gilbert, the gruff-voiced comic, puts his sense of humour to use in tackling a sensitive topic. Having uncovered issues with his sperm while tryi…
Friends of Advisory Board!
Like most organisations with charitable and social goals, TherapyFriends needs friends. They might not want to be exactly on an Advisory Board but are…
Yoga for Love!
Ayurvedic teachings have some definite suggestions about the role of sex within society. Sex is sacred and intimate relationships are an important par…
Five Spiritual Ways to ‘Clock’ your Walk
If you are sitting at home and looking at others going about outside, don't let the brooding and 'I simply don't have it in me' and 'some people just …
Inspirational Poems: Tagore
Thou hast made me known to friends whom I knew not. Thou hast given me seats in homes not my own. Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brothe…
Simple Guide to Find-a-Friend
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Going ‘Vegan’ 2021: Enter Write-a-recipe
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Our Ongoing Offers for Writers
Writers know that some experiences more than others, change us forever-our beliefs, our mindset, our life.
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What can I do on TherapyFriends?
From our new Well-being Clinic feature, to professional writing, our popular Find-a-Friend matching service, and spiritual and mindful articles, Thera…
Find-a-Friend
We don't have to be lonely to find new friends. The various transitional phases of life such as leaving education, family, children growing up and le…
Systemic Exclusion of Black History
It accuses the current history curriculum of dissociating Britain from a legacy that has oppressed black people in favour of a “romanticised, filter…
No Mental Health Research, without Qualitative Research
Modern medicine is primarily about numbers. And yet, I would argue that the very essence of clinical psychiatry is the meeting of, normally, two indiv…
Anxiety and Depression: Home Remedies
Just the act of saying, “I feel anxious right now,” activates the parts of our brain that helps us organize and regulate our emotions, and also ca…
Southbank: Forest of Art
Among the Trees transports us around the world – from Colombian rainforests and remote Japanese islands to olive orchards in Israel and a 9,550-year…
Photos of Endangered Animals Raise Funding for Relief Projects
“At this time when everyone is scared and uncertain, this is not the moment to abandon our communities and relationships but to remember that conser…
COVID-19, whiteness, and making black mental health matter
Medical training that dismisses the importance of cultural values, assumes scientific objectivity, and practises coded racialised diagnostic values, s…
November 2020 Newsletter
Thank you for signing up and staying with us at TherapyFriends. This month, we are completely mobile friendly. Read all the news now!
Chronic Conditions and Mental Health
The model is therefore also a treatment that can be used by psychologists and psychotherapists, who help people adapt to a life that is never going to…
Warming Drinks for Winter Walks
If the first lockdown taught us anything, it’s that we should all be outside as often as possible – for ventilation, for exercise, and for escapin…
TF Newsletter – Oct 2020
All the latest news from our monthly newsletter which goes out to our valued TherapyFriends!
Small Talk is Good for You
Building rapport with strangers can leave people feeling heard, respected, and emotionally validated. These random opportunities to engage in small ta…
The “Soul” in Hinduism: An alternative view of life and freedom
During that fieldwork, the discourses about “soul” came alive and I couldn’t ignore it: A salvation-oriented path to freedom, which Ama follow…
Joe Biden: Grief and Mourning
Joe Biden’s ongoing recovery from the trauma of the deaths of his first wife and youngest child have dramatically shaped his career, from the ways i…
Neck Exercises for Stress from Working Online
Long periods of dropping your head forward can lead to the loss of the natural curve of the cervical spine resulting in increased stress on the neck, …
Should Psychologists Talk About their Mental Health ?
Devendorf goes on to argue that the stigma within psychology against disclosing one's own experiences needs to end. He points out that personal experi…
One Wheel, Many Spokes
End of the day, I make no recommendations for any person, but yes, I have seen friends and family be those “better people” with some appropriate s…
Public and Private Contracts Bungle System?
But the breakdown of the system appears to result at least in part from its oversight by corporate executives (led by Dido Harding), with no relevant …
Britons, Welfare Benefits and Immigration
Public support for more generous welfare benefits is at its highest level for more than two decades, amid new evidence that societal views on social s…
Racism in UK schools
Research by YMCA among young people of black and mixed ethnicity found many felt they had to change to be accepted in society, prompting warnings that…
Taiwan and New Zealand: COVID response study
With the extensive infrastructure it had established before COVID-19, it appears Taiwan was in a better position than New Zealand to respond effective…
Thinking about Suicidal Thinking
In common usage the term refers to what has been called active suicidal ideation—that is, thoughts about undertaking the act of killing oneself (sui…
Indian Summers: Review
Julie Walters carries much of the action on her sturdy shoulders as the racist matriarch of the Simla club who keeps dogs and Indians (yes, not again)…
The Undoing: Review
Come for Nicole Kidman, in the hope that this new HBO miniseries will fill the Big Little Lies-shaped hole in your weekly viewing schedule, but stay f…
Letter to Rachel-Part 2
I didn’t exactly choose to awaken to the emptiness of constructed reality. It was an accidental awakening — maybe through drugs, which can alter o…
Letter to Rachel-Part 1
The Fall is really an awakening. It’s our consciousness realizing that some of the things we believed in are actually a bit of a charade.
Jules Evans on TherapyFriends!
PHILOSOPHY FOR LIFE ? Jules Evans ? Philosopher, researcher, blogger...Yes, he is our surprise writer and we are glad to have him in our midst-
Winter Getaways:UK
Port Ban beach is sheltered and if the sun comes out you are in heaven – you could be in the Caribbean here if the temperature were 20 degrees highe…
‘Healthy Masculinity’ Camp
Later, I was part of a group of more than 20 men, many crying, as we talked about our emotions – about moments from our childhood, about parents, ab…
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October 2020 Newsletter
TherapyFriends hopes to de-stigmatise mental health and create an inclusive online caring community. There are interest forums and 'find a friend' fun…
Homemade Snacks for Lockdown
James Rich turns apples into crisps: dry them out, store in a jar and eat sprinkled with sea salt.
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Russell, Freud, Jung and I
Then one day I found a book on ‘An Introduction to Psychoanalysis’ by Sigmund Freud. I fell in love with that subject for almost six months. Slips…
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‘Famous’ Zoom Rooms Rated ?
With its stately lamp and verdant window view, Hillary Clinton’s “Zoom room” is nicer than most.
The Ghan: Australia’s Famous Train Gets A Makeover!
Mulladad is an Arrernte woman from the remote Indigenous community of Ltyentye Apurte, where she works with the Keringke Art Centre that her mother co…
Southern Hemisphere pics and articles?
Could our valued Southern Hemisphere subscribers post some pics and news/information/articles about what weather is like there now? Our wonderful planet has different climate in…
Festivals, Rituals, Please!
Do post pics of your festivals and rituals!! We like to know about the wonderful world we live in and the events that bring people together!
‘Fatigue Was Something I Relished, Now it is Monstrous’: Raine and M.E.
Raine Geoghegan writes about her experience with chronic fatigue syndrome, and how she lives alongside sometimes debilitating conditions in a way th…
D H Lawrence Virtual Symposium
We look forward to bringing Lawrence scholars and enthusiasts from around the world back into proximity with Lawrence and each other, so please do joi…
When is Ramadan in 2021?
The Ramadan start date for 2021 is expected to begin on Monday 12th April 2021, following the sighting of the moon over Mecca.
My Caribbean Home – On The Sea
The first of a few shares of a part of my life. The Caribbean: Sea, Sun, Sand
The World and I are Within One Another
I apply Ken Gergen's challenging idea of 'Therapy as relational recovery' to my own practice and personal development.
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