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I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.  Quote from The Picture of Dorian Grey, by Oscar Wilde, 1890. In the quote above, Dorian Grey, the protagonist in Oscar Wilde’s novel, attempts to use, enjoy and gain some mastery over […]

It is a universal truth that life can be incredibly challenging.  It can, and often does, throw us into painful and upsetting situations that we did not ask for, and are sometimes ill-equipped to deal with. That being the case, understandably, we don’t always respond in ways that serve us best in the long term. […]

Therapists seem to use metaphors, analogies and imagery as therapeutic interventions so naturally that it is easy to even miss that it is ‘an intervention’. Likening our human experience to an image, object, or situation is a common way to convey complex, hard to describe experiences in a way others will comprehend. In fact, it […]