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5 Nov, 2024

By Dr John Ashfield

Take Charge of Your Mental Health

Take Charge of Your Mental Health – An owner’s guide to psychological wellbeing is a real game-changer when it comes to mental health. The book forcefully pushes aside the dark clouds of the current, highly…

26 Apr, 2024

By Dr John Ashfield

About Relationship Violence

Relationship violence may involve physical violence, but we need to understand relationship violence more broadly as behaviour that is violating. Such violence may also be coercive, that is, a pattern of behaviour that is harmful….

10 Oct, 2023

By Dr John Ashfield

Managing Repetitive Thinking (rumination)

Managing Repetitive Thinking is a 16 page downloadable resource available here. How and why this way of thinking creates difficulties for us. Repetitive thinking or rumination describes a pattern of thinking that is circular with…

16 May, 2023

By Dr John Ashfield

About Disturbing Thoughts

Disturbing thoughts are danger signs that should not be ignored. This post “About Disturbing Thoughts” details key indicators of these problematic thought patterns. • Thinking things are hopeless and won’t change in the future• Thinking…

7 Feb, 2023

By Dr John Ashfield

Work and Getting Life Working

Thinking about priorities Doubtless you’ve heard the catch-phrase ‘achieving a work/life balance’? Work and getting life working is easier said than done, you might say; and that’s a fair comment, if the phrase implies some…

30 Jan, 2023

By Dr John Ashfield

Saying no to the tyranny of devices

One of the most insidious threats to self-care and self-preservation for anyone working in the fields of health or human services is the unchallenged and habit forming use of technology, our everyday devices. Learn how…

17 Jan, 2023

By Dr John Ashfield

Climate Change Anxiety – The reality and the cure

Climate change anxiety is a pervasive and troubling form of anxiety, which has much in common with other anxieties fuelled by the constant repetition of threat, whether physical, material, moral, or social. And not only…

15 Dec, 2022

By Dr John Ashfield

Why You Must Matter

Ever dressed in a hurry and in buttoning up a shirt or blouse you didn’t pay enough attention and started doing up the buttons in the wrong sequence, thus, every subsequent button was done up…

27 Aug, 2022

By Dr John Ashfield

Getting enough exercise to stay healthy

How much exercise is best? Only about half of us get anything like the amount of exercise we need for good health. The good news is that we don’t have to go in for heroics,…