Fear plays a crucial role in alerting us to situations where self-care is necessary. Notifying you of a possible threat, it blocks love when you don’t distinguish between real and imagined ...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/living-with-excessive-fear-blocks-love-care-trust-and-respect/
It’s easy to misconstrue stressful habits we’ve normalised, such as our anxiety, guardedness and a tendency to overthink and critique as being signs of conscientiousness. We might think we ha...
In this two-hundred-and-fiftieth (!!!) episode of The Baggage Reclaim Sessions, I share some of the lessons I’ve learned about change and evolution as a result of making the show. Subscribe on...
Over the sixteen-plus years of writing this blog, one of my most frequently asked questions is ‘How do you know if the person you’re dating is emotionally available?’ Keen to avoid being hu...
Thanks to being socialised to disassociate from our bodies, we assume that if we buy, be, do or have the ‘right’ things then we will feel OK. We expect that we ‘shouldn’t’ feel anxious....
Believing you’ve put in too much to leave and that to ‘give up’ would be a ‘waste’ is a trap. You stay in a situation long past its sell-by date, blocking you from accepting, grieving a...
This week’s episode of The Baggage Reclaim Sessions tackles one of my most frequently asked questions: What is intimacy? As humans, we need, desire and seek intimacy. We also, however, engage ...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/podcast-ep-203-what-is-intimacy/
In this week’s episode of The Baggage Reclaim Sessions, I break down why no isn’t a dirty word and how it leads to a happier you and more fulfilling relationships and experiences when you le...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/podcast-ep-199-yes-isnt-a-clean-word-if-its-not-authentic/
Have you ever found yourself in a cycle of saying how guilty you feel about something? It can lead to paralysis or spending more time beating you up than you do taking positive action. What happe...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/do-you-really-feel-guilty-or-are-you-hiding-out/
Some people think that they’re ‘damaged goods’ and limit their romantic prospects because they’ve had little or no experience, or because they’ve had a string of unsuccessful relationsh...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/podcast-ep-157-damaged-goods-relationship-experience/
This week’s episode of The Baggage Reclaim Sessions is on the topic of anxiety and intuition. I speak to so many people who feel confused because they’re experiencing anxiety at the same time...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/podcast-ep-107-which-spoke-first-your-intuition-or-your-anxiety/
In this week’s episode of The Baggage Reclaim Sessions, I face down the task of sharing a somewhat private struggle — fear of failure, fear of success. Some nuggets about help versus support ...
Many of us grapple with the fear that if something doesn’t happen in the time frame that we want it to, that something bad will happen or that we won’t get it at all. We fear missing out. We ...
Over the last few months, I’ve been meeting readers at my workshops and there’s a really strong theme coming through: Sure, there are fears about not being “good enough” or even being che...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/fear-of-sacrifice-fear-of-commitment/
When you need to step back from an unhealthy relationship and employ No Contact (NC) after the breakup, irrational fears and beliefs which are used to try to control the uncontrollable but to als...
https://www.baggagereclaim.co.uk/5-irrational-fears-beliefs-about-no-contact/