Tag: transactional analysis

  • Why do I have mixed feelings about coming out of lockdown?

    Why do I have mixed feelings about coming out of lockdown?

    I have had two competing responses to the idea of getting back to normality, since Boris Johnson announced the roadmap plans to ease lockdown. Part of me is desperate to have freedom and choice, to be able to see the people I love and to hug them again. More surprisingly perhaps, part of me doesn’t…

  • New TA Webinars with translation in 5 languages – live!

    New TA Webinars with translation in 5 languages – live!

    At the Link Centre we are pleased to announce that we are running 2-hour online TA workshops (by-donation): Monday from 10am-12pm Tuesday from 6pm-8pm We’ve set up these accessible webinars as a way to support the community during the pandemic. They have been extremely popular and thousands of people around the world have attended. We…

  • Personality Types in a Crisis

    Personality Types in a Crisis

    Personality types in a crisis: How Drivers explain your reaction to Covid-19 Have you been rushing around doing every online workshop, exercise class and zoom quiz since lockdown began? Perhaps you feel the need to hide your emotions and “be strong” for your friends and family, during times like these? Maybe you’re someone who constantly…

  • Understanding ourselves with Transactional Analysis

    Understanding ourselves with Transactional Analysis

    As we move towards spring my mind turns towards thoughts of increasingly warmer days, sunshine and growth. Like plants people can be affected by their environment in their capacity to grow into healthy, fully functioning human beings. In the same way that seedlings planted in poor soil do not flourish, when someone’s early environment lacks…

  • Make your brain bushier!

    Make your brain bushier!

    What are the priorities in your life? Wellbeing, Health, Wealth, Happiness, Family, Friends, Work, Hobbies? Do you prioritise the things that are important to you? Are they the things you spend most time and effort on? How has 2014 been for you? A good year? Mixed? Not so good? Was this a year that you…

  • Developing self-awareness

    Developing self-awareness

    Human beings are weird! I should know, I am a Psychotherapist – amongst other things. Even within what we might call the ‘normal’ range of thoughts, feelings and behaviours, we are a little bit odd – all of us, and I include myself in that. We have weird and wonderful ways of behaving, thought processes, and…

  • Health through Transactional Analysis

    Health through Transactional Analysis

    Leilani Mitchell talks about our innate need for attention and how we inhibit ourselves and often end up with negative attention especially in times of stress. ‘She/he is just attention seeking’ – how often do we hear or say this statement? We use it as a put down as a criticism, and yet if someone…

  • Make that change

    Make that change

    Our resident psychotherapist, Leilani Mitchell, advises on how to embrace the new year and beyond and make that change. It’s that time of year again – the evenings are dark, the cold, wet weather is here and last year is a memory. This is when people often make decisions about the future – resolutions to…