Mind Flow Therapies

20/04/2026

13/04/2026

Sending some brightness to everyone.

08/04/2026

My thoughts on AI in counselling. There is talk in the counselling world that we are now in competition with AI such as chat GPT.
My thought is that AI can be really useful for answering a question based on what it can find on the internet. As for a bespoke counselling service, I hear that it has the intelligence to discuss you as an individual. However, I don’t feel it can relate fully to another human being, human experiences, emotional intelligence and the “hidden” or “unspoken” or the shadow side of work that counsellors do.
For that, I personally feel people need a human being.

08/04/2026

Most people approach shadow work like it’s meant to make them feel better.

It won’t.

Real shadow work is not journaling soft questions and waiting for gentle answers. It is facing the parts of yourself you’ve spent years avoiding, justifying, or hiding behind identity.

Jealousy.
Resentment.
Control.
Ego.
The need for validation.
The parts of you that react before you think.

That is the shadow.

And the problem is not that it exists.

The problem is that most people refuse to see it clearly.

They rename it.
They soften it.
They explain it away.

And in doing that, they keep it in control.

Because what you refuse to look at directly will continue to run you without your awareness.

Shadow work was never about becoming “better.”

It was about becoming honest.

Brutally honest.

Seeing your patterns without filtering them through how you want to be perceived. Recognising where you sabotage yourself, where you project onto others, where your reactions come from something deeper than the situation in front of you.

And then holding that awareness without turning away.

That’s the part most people can’t do.

Because once you see it clearly, you lose the ability to pretend it isn’t there.

And that’s where the real work begins.

Not in the awareness but in what you do after.

Whether you keep repeating it.
Or whether you start to control it.

Shadow work doesn’t remove the darkness.

It shows you exactly where it lives.

And whether you’re the one controlling it or the one being controlled.

06/04/2026

Doodles

15/03/2026

Swimming this morning and I found myself clock watching. I thought for a moment and decided to change this. I looked at the sun dappling in the water and enjoyed small sloshing sounds. Mindfulness at its best is a beautiful thing.

13/03/2026

Pleased to announce that I am now a Breathwork coach. May be a few months before I can practice. Watch this space.

07/03/2026

This is all any of us can do. It is enough. More than enough. In fact, we can all come down to a level that doesn’t challenge or extend us too much.