HG newsletter - February 2022
In this issue:
- The Challenge of Smoldering Sibling Resentment
- "Getting Below the Waterline"
- NEW Antidepressants live online event
- New self-help book features HG
- #Spohntrained Personal Development Podcast with Ivan Tyrrell
- Children's Mental Health Resources
- A message from Emily Gajewski
- Food for thought
Smouldering sibling resentment
Every month, Denise Winn, human givens journal editor, trainer and author writes an insightful blog post for Psychology Today to help raise awareness about the human givens approach and share her therapeutic insights – month on month, her fascinating posts have been promoted by Psychology Today as essential topics.
This month, Denise shares a very thought-provoking case history: 'Smouldering sibling resentment – a more helpful way to view it'...
“What she did to me was deliberate!” wailed Melanie. “I just can’t forgive her for that.”
"Getting below the waterline" - of modern human behavior
Towards the end of last year Ivan Tyrrell was interviewed by American Scott Mann for his popular The Rooftop Podcast... series. Their conversation, which explores below the waterline of modern human behaviour has just been released. "Modern society moves so fast and our ancient brains struggle to make sense of all the mass technology, materialism, and other distractors that isolate us from our neighbour, our teammates, and even our family. But, here’s the good news. That’s not in our nature to do this. We are actually wired to be social."
Antidepressants - what we all need to know
Antidepressants are now prescribed in their millions for depression and a surprising number of other conditions. It’s therefore vital that anyone considering taking such medication – or who cares for, supports or works with someone who is – knows about and is able to recognise the wide variety of physical and psychological effects that these medications can cause.
Learn the full facts and explore options to help avoid harm and dependence...
Join Beverley Thomson, an expert researcher, writer and speaker in the field, to find out the truth about what antidepressants can – and can’t – do, including how antidepressants may affect talking therapies - plus much more...
The workshop is suitable for everyone so please help us to spread the word about this essential event by telling your friends and colleagues.
- Live online workshop: Antidepressants: what we all need to know
- Date: 12th April 2022 (one-off event)
- Price: only £90.00 per person
New book features HG
Life Coach Nick Hatter, has long been a fan of the human givens approach, which he credits as having helped him with both his own mental health and in his work as a life coach supporting others.
His new book, The 7 Questions, aims to help people who feel they have lost direction in life, or are getting held back by repeating old patterns. Nick hopes it will also help raise further awareness of the human givens approach. We wish him every success with the book's launch.
#Spohntrained Personal Development Podcast with Ivan Tyrrell
Listen to Nicholas Spohn and Ivan Tyrrell dive into the basic fundamentals of what it means to be a thriving and emotionally healthy human being. During this podcast, Ivan shares the fundamental necessities that all humans share – as well as what doesn't work about modern psychotherapy, why REM state and dreaming is essential for our health, how trance and hypnosis is essential for learning and even into the nature of consciousness...
Getting Together - Children's mental health
"As our children, or the young people in our care, mature, we need to make sure we adapt our style too. Tempting as it may be to become more authoritative as behaviour gets more challenging, we need to try to resist this instinct. As the child gets older, we should aim for a less authoritative style, enabling the young person’s growing needs for autonomy, control and status to be met in age-appropriate ways..." read more
Our children's mental health awareness page now includes additional resources, including...
- Podcast: Improving mental health for young people, one step at a time
- Video: How to grow psychologically as parents and families
A message from Emily Gajewski
Tutor Emily Gajewski explains why it's so important that all caring professionals know how to protect themselves from feeling overwhelmed, compassion fatigue and burn out...
Listen to her video message here >
Food for thought
“Use the light that is within you to recover your natural clearness of sight.”
Lao-tzu
I hope you've enjoyed this latest news round-up.
We love to hear from you, so do get in contact if you have any news, helpful advice or interesting case studies you think other readers might like to know about!
Jane Tyrrell
Human Givens News
Explore our articles and interviews
Working with psychosis — once a week
Emily Gajewski describes how, as a therapist in private practice, she helped a client overcome the psychotic delusions that were keeping her trapped.
Helping a child in pain
Pain expert Leora Kuttner shares up-to-date understandings about children’s experience of pain and some ways to help them reduce it.
The APET™ model: standing cognitive therapy on its head
Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell describe a biologically-based theory which explains the shortcomings of purely cognitive approaches and why effective therapies can work fast.
7-11 breathing: How does deep breathing make you feel more relaxed?
With mindfulness now all the rage, many online articles are now advocating breathing techniques as a way to lessen anxiety and control stress levels.
The curious case of covid consternation
Julia Welstead looks at how our inner resources - with a little help from an effective therapist - can help us to overcome trauma, build resilience through difficult times and develop a positive mindset and zest for life.
Some thoughts on corruption and servility
Ivan Tyrrell considers how the miasma of corruption we live in affects many aspects of our lives, often in subtle ways.
On the receiving end...
A young Russian woman, Nina, describes how just three sessions of human givens therapy lifted her suicidal depression and turned her life around.
Why abstractions confuse people
Most people think ethics is concerned with truth, justice, equality, loyalty, fairness, values, principles, morals, etc. All these words in italics are abstractions. They are content free. They contain no sensory information. Such words used to be called 'reifications' in philosophy and are now more commonly called 'nominalisations'.
Trending Articles
The mysterious Jung: his cult, the lies he told, and the occult
Ivan Tyrrell asks Professor Richard Noll, author of ‘The Jung Cult’, to unravel the lies Carl G Jung told to aggrandise himself and his charismatic psychoanalytic movement.
The uses and abuses of hypnosis
Ivan Tyrrell warns that hypnosis is a powerful tool that must be used with care, understanding and integrity.
Exploring the CULT in culture
Looking at cult behaviour. A revised version (including additional material) of an article by Ivan Tyrrell, first published in 1993, that explores Dr Arthur Deikman's enlightening work on cult behaviour.
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7-11 breathing: How does deep breathing make you feel more relaxed?
With mindfulness now all the rage, many online articles are now advocating breathing techniques as a way to lessen anxiety and control stress levels.
Normal birth can be pain free
Sheila Barratt-Smith tells Denise Winn that the images and language used to describe birth can determine whether a woman experiences pain — or euphoria.
The Emotional Needs Scale
Brett Culham describes the outcome of his research to validate the needs-based human givens approach to psychological health.
The Trickster: Medicine's forgotten character
Therapy in all its forms can be confusingly capricious and unpredictable. We should not try to deny this, but learn to accept it, says Larry Dossey MD.
“Use the breath. It’s easier”
Sam Gerrard explores the benefits of 7:11 breathing and shares the results of his own and others’ research into the technique
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