As a counsellor, I have seen many people recover from mental illness. Here are four things which, in my experience, help any person’s recovery.

As a counsellor, I have seen many people recover from mental illness. Here are four things which, in my experience, help any person’s recovery.
Boundaries can be useful. But they can also be badly misused, even by therapists.
Mental health is the achievement of balance between extremes.
Anxiety and panic, as emotions, are designed to exaggerate themselves for our own safety. Sometimes we need to regulate them to stay functional.
The ‘pain body’ is a little monster inside us that wants to feed on a sense of personal suffering and insult.
By treating others as special, and being curious about them, we can escape our own selfishness.