PODCAST - What is limerance, and how can Hypno-CBT help? Limerence is an intense, sometimes obsessive state whereby a person becomes obsessively preoccupied with another individual, often accompanied by an overwhelming desire for reciprocation. #addiction #neurodivergence

Our personal bill of rights - a focussed attention exercise (meditation/hypnosis) that's ideal for identifying needs and regulating.

Analysing the attachment styles of the Love, Actually characters: Karen, Jamie, Colin, Mark & Joe. Insecure or secure attachment?

Heartstopper Syndrome – the blissful oxytocin rush of being held, followed by the post-watch slump – Plus, Charlie Spring's heartbeat, PSD

EMPATHETIC RESONANCE “Try to trust your empathetic responses, especially the somatic sensations: our nervous system’s ‘truth radar.' #hypno

I delve into Nick and Charlie’s primary love languages in TV’s Heartstopper, based on "The 5 Love Languages,"

Podcast - (Show 16): TV as therapy – how Heartstopper's helping us heal - and what are the links with processing loss of what we didn’t have

Narcissism – An A to Z detailing overt, covert, vulnerable narcissism, gaslighting and all of the major terms concerning this set of defence

Analysing the attachment styles of the Heartstopper cast – spoilers included! Charlie Spring, Nick Nelson, Tao Xu, Elle Argent, Darcy Olsson

How does RSD show up for you? How do we heal? What even is rejection sensitive dysphoria? Do you head into a fight or flight energy?

Studying the attachment styles of Dex and Emma in Netflix's adaption of David Nicholls' One Day. #OneDay #EmmaAndDex #Netflix #attachment

Did you know there is a great framework for avoiding people-pleasing and codependent relational patterns that was developed from the...

BACP article: ‘Missed, misunderstood & misdiagnosed': Kathy Carter asks: Is undiagnosed ADHD & autism at the root of many addictions?

I wanted to share this recent experience, in case it resonates with you too. My family and I were heading away for a few days on annual...

All about anxiety - what it is, its relationship to stress; tips to beat anxiety, inc CBT and mindfulness, and regulation of nervous system

Kathy Carter guests on the Neurodivergence & Mental Health Podcast

A brief introduction to Stephen Karpman's drama triangle, a model of relating whereby we slip into victimhood.

This blog looks at the nine Enneagram types. The Enneagram model is a personality system that categorises individuals into nine types.

“I'm NOT Dwayne Dibley”. Red Dwarf’s ‘Back to Reality’ as a metaphor for rejection sensitive dysphoria, a hallucinogenic defence mechanism

Getting to know your masking self. Autistic masking, HSP, neurodiversity. Using mask mapping to meet the part of us that conserves spoons