Why Does Consistency Matter?
For many people, therapy is sought out in response to a crisis, or as a last-ditch attempt to deal with some form of chronic mental or...
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Chris Wilson
Nov 14, 202311 min read
Finding Balance: A Holistic Approach to Managing Anxiety
The causes of chronic anxiety are complex, so its management necessitates a holistic, or whole-being approach. With that in mind,...
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Chris Wilson
Aug 4, 20235 min read
The Bitter-Sweet Fruits of Mindfulness
While I believe the appearance of mindfulness into popular culture is a largely positive development, the simplistic ways in which it is...
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Chris Wilson
Aug 4, 20234 min read
How's Your Relationship With Your Anxiety?
“Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.” ― Soren Kierkegaard Living with chronic anxiety is a...
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Chris Wilson
Oct 15, 20223 min read
What Heals?
At this point, research on the efficacy of therapy is clear; the specific modality is largely irrelevant, rather it is the rapport that...
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Chris Wilson
Apr 27, 20228 min read
Ambivalence - Relationship Kryptonite
Most of us, probably more frequently than we’d like, will have found ourselves in the grip of relational ambivalence, either playing the...
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Chris Wilson
Feb 9, 20224 min read
Is There a Place for Philosophy? - Metaphysics
Moving away from identity, the lens of philosophical enquiry can also be directed towards our core beliefs about the nature of reality....
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Chris Wilson
Feb 9, 20224 min read
Is There a Place for Philosophy? - Identity
Consider this - Whether you engage consciously with philosophical questions, or not, you are most certainly answering those questions...
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Chris Wilson
Feb 9, 20224 min read
Re-entry and the Therapeutic Relationship
Being in the business of relationship building, I’m forced to think deeply and often about how relationships form and mature, or not, as...
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Chris Wilson
Feb 9, 20225 min read
Psychedelics - Pros & Cons
Currently in the midst of a rebranding following their messy heyday in the 60’s, psychedelics are no longer associated solely with...
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Chris Wilson
Feb 9, 20227 min read
Technology and the Religious Impulse - Vehicles of Transcendence
Technology has brought us out of the forest and onto the field, released us from the merciless grind of survival and endless sickness, so...
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Chris Wilson
Feb 9, 20224 min read
Technology and the Religious Impulse - The End of Growth?
Maybe you have noticed, like me, an increasing trend towards the unquestioned assumption that our wildest technological fantasies are a...
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Chris Wilson
Jan 27, 202217 min read
Beyond Identity - The Roots of Polarization
Originally used in 1940’s America to define a state of mind that was awake to racial injustice, the term woke, in its contemporary form,...
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Chris Wilson
Jan 26, 20223 min read
Lifting the Hood on Therapy
From the perspective of sceptical observers and even interested clients, therapy can seem like a suspiciously obscure endeavour. Given...
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