As I’ve spent so much time working with all kinds of people, I always get asked: “what makes a successful person stick to their goals?” The answer is that they will always do what they hate or do what they don’t want to do to reach their goals, whereas people who don’t succeed often seem to give up their goals … Read More
The subtle power of repetition
What if I told you there was a single tool or habit you could employ in nearly every area of your life to help you reach your goals, big and small. Would you want to know it? And would you do it? One of the guiding principles of my methods as a therapist is the power of repetition. If you … Read More
Depression- The Cause and Cure
Depression is really all about not feeling good enough. It is also down to not following our hearts desire and having the life we want and thus, being full of regrets for the things we did not do which brings on apathy inertia. Catherine Zeta Jones and the cricketer Michael Yardy have both been in the news suffering from debilitating … Read More
Seasonal Affective Disorder- Ask Marisa How to Combat
Seasonal Affective Disorder AKA SAD This week I got a question on Twitter about something I imagine a lot of people are beginning to experience, perhaps even unknowingly: seasonal affective disorder, or SAD. This is a fitting acronym as many people feel a general sense of sadness when they’re experiencing this condition, people also refer to it as winter depression. … Read More
Paleo Diet, Stone Age Bodies in Modern Times
The American public radio programme Fresh Air featured an interview with Harvard evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman recently, whose new book The Story of the Human Body details, among many other things, how the modern diet results in so many of the non-infectious diseases plague us today. Things like diabetes, IBS, acne, breast cancer, obesity and depression simply didn’t exist (or at least … Read More
Depression Treatment – anti-depressants aren’t always the answer
Depression Treatment A recent article in the New York Times highlighting a new study on the over-use of anti depressants caught my eye. For years I have been issuing depression treatment depressed patients without suggesting they use anti-depressants of any kind. I get patients whose other therapists and psychiatrists have tried everything—some have even been suicidal—and yet I almost always … Read More
What Causes Depression – overcoming depression
Recent studies have shown that depression is often caused by not feeling good enough. It can also be down to not following our hearts desire or having the life we want and thus being full of regrets for the things we did not do, bringing on apathy, inertia and depression. So what causes depression? Recently Catherine Zeta Jones and the … Read More