Counselling Conversations with Julie

We often carry a metaphorical suitcase of problems, worries, issues, and challenges. These thoughts and feelings may be related to many challenges in your life. Some days it is easier than others to manage these thoughts and feelings. Controlling and reasoning to problem-solve these emotions and thoughts can be difficult, especially when the day ahead is busy.

This podcast will provide you with a way that may help with a short-term technique to look at your suitcase of worries differently. Thank you for joining me today. For more information please click the link to check out more of what we are doing at Beyond The Surface Counselling https://

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Communication is the key to any successful relationship be it romantic, friend, work, or parental relationship. But have you ever wondered why conversations have not been successful? In your opinion you said the right thing and did the right thing, how did it go so wrong you ask yourself?

Our verbal communication is only one of the aspects of communication. Thank you for joining me today. For more information please click the link to check out more of what we are doing at Beyond The Surface Counselling https://

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Animal-assisted therapy is being more widely used in therapeutic settings and other environments, such as schools, aged care facilities, hospitals, therapeutic offices, military veterans and companion animals for both children and adults. 

Individuals and groups have found that therapeutic experiences with animals assist in helping them cope with and recover from some mental and physical health conditions.                                   

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Your shadow self is a Jungian psychoanalytic concept model founded by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist. He founded analytic psychology and proposed and developed the concepts of extraverted and introverted personality, archetypes, and collective unconscious.

The shadow is the form taken by some aspects of ourselves that we dislike, the parts of ourselves that we are ashamed of, that we hide from ourselves and those around us. Thank you for joining me today. For more information please click the link to check out more of what we are doing at Beyond The Surface Counselling https://

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How much do our attachment styles impact our relationships with partners? According to British psychologist John Bowlby, who was the first attachment theorist, he said that attachment styles are a ‘lasting psychological connectedness between human beings’. 'Our earliest attachment bonds formed in childhood have a tremendous impact that continues throughout life'.

Let’s just sit with that thought, our early childhood experiences can have an impact on later relationships. How is your relationship right now?

Psychological stress is an effect in the mind; related to the mental, physical and emotional state of an individual. Psychological stress occurs when we are under pressure and have difficulty coping with a situation, experience, people or environment that may arouse negative thoughts, feelings, self-talk, and emotional responses. Thank you for joining me today. For more information please click the link to check out more of what we are doing at Beyond The Surface Counselling https://

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Many people have experienced grief in their lives. At this time, you may have loving supportive people around you, to help and guide you through the hard times or you may be doing this alone.

It appears in our society an unwritten rule that a person who is grieving has a certain timeframe and then the grieving must end and it’s time to ‘get on with it’ or ‘move on’.

There is no timeframe or set pattern for grieving, you may always grieve, and feel sadness but in different ways. It is important to remember that moving forward in life does not mean forgetting but learning how to live without the person, circumstance, or situation in your life.

We have all had those times when we feel unmotivated. We may find ourselves scrolling social media, binge-watching, texting, reading, cleaning, going out for lunch, online shopping and the list goes on. Doing everything except what we either need or must achieve or delaying an important task.

The habit of delaying important tasks to focus on less urgent, more enjoyable, and easier tasks differs from laziness. Procrastination is the act of unnecessarily and voluntarily delaying an important task that may have negative consequences for our potential and our jobs. Putting off tasks we don’t enjoy is common, despite the negative consequences that may follow. Thank you for joining me today. For more information please click the link to check out more of what we are doing at Beyond The Surface Counselling https:// linktr.ee/beyondthesurfacecounselling

Safety is a fundamental human need essential for our mental and physical wellbeing. A sense of safety is paramount for our minds and body to feel secure and anxiety-free.

The loss of safety directly impacts our stress response. This ultimately affects our health, relationships and quality of life.

Have you met that person who seems to be full of their importance, loves attention and wants people to notice and admire them, they are the people who take up the room. They have an unreasonably high sense of their importance. They often put others down as they do not consider them worthy of their attention. Well, you may have met a narcissist.

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