What is maturity and how do we achieve it? Maturity is when we move from being self-centred to being world-centred, when we realise everyone has different perspectives, opinions, and values. This post describes a framework for taking a more mature perspective and action.

If you have ever indulged in something painful – a story, an emotion, or behaviour – you might notice something very strange. You are being torn in two directions; a part of you doesn’t want to stop. This post provides some eye-opening reasons, allowing you to break past these barriers.

Are you ready to make some changes? How would we remove our self-defeating behaviours, how would we make our painful associations extinct? What do we watch out for along the way? Find out here.

Need a hand in keeping those New Year’s resolutions? This series gives a personal twist on the school of psychology known as Behaviourism. This introductory post will present some basic concepts, aimed at helping you explore and understand your self-defeating behaviours.

The work involved in finding and challenging the causes of our self-defeating behaviours and negative emotions can take time. Sometimes, this is a luxury we do not have. This article contains a small selection of short-term techniques.

The focus of this series has been on self-analysis, in finding the core beliefs and faulty conclusions that underlie our painful emotions and self-defeating behaviours. This post provides some background, supporting arguments and more importantly – pitfalls – that one might encounter in such work.

In changing our lives and our self-defeating behaviours, one of the most important things is going deeper – finding the core beliefs, faulty conclusions, and hidden desires that cause them. This lays a very important foundation for true change to begin. This post details these concepts and presents a few processes to aid you.