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
Human givens: the evidence so far
In this 2009 article, Bill Andrews describes the practice-based evidence that has emerged from studies of the human givens approach to date and explains why the future looks positive.
Why people with schizophrenia so often use illicit drugs
USE of illicit drugs is common in schizophrenia, with a recent meta-analysis showing that as many as one in four patients had ‘cannabis use disorder’.
Tipping the scales: an HG approach to weight management
Fiona Sheldon describes the impact of her human givens work in an NHS clinic for patients struggling with obesity.
A cloud lifted...
Studying to become a counsellor would give her the skills to help people, thought Frances Masters. It didn’t … until she came across the human givens approach.
Book review - Ritual: how seemingly senseless acts make life worth living
Denise Winn reviews 'Ritual: how seemingly senseless acts make life worth living' by Dimitris Xygalatas (Profile Books, 2024)
The Doctrines of Psychology
Chris Scott, human givens therapist, addresses why a new approach to psychology which breaks away from traditional dogma is needed.
Book review: 'Lost Connections: uncovering the real causes of depression – and the unexpected solutions'
Denise Winn has read Lost Connections: uncovering the real causes of depression – and the unexpected solutions, and talked to its author, Johann Hari.
Trending Articles
The uses and abuses of hypnosis
Ivan Tyrrell warns that hypnosis is a powerful tool that must be used with care, understanding and integrity...
7-11 breathing: How does deep breathing make you feel more relaxed?
Many online articles now advocate breathing techniques as a way to lessen anxiety and control stress levels, but we have noticed...
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.
The Century of the Self
Ivan Tyrrell explores with Adam Curtis how Freudian ideas are flourishing in business and politics today and insidiously influence all of our lives.
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.
How to lift depression quickly and safely
Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell explain how and why the human givens approach can help therapists shift depression in a handful sessions — or fewer.
A Christmas Carol... or a tale of three therapists?
James Tapper suggests that Charles Dickens’s famous seasonal novel contains much that reflects the human givens approach to therapy.
Are you ok? Don’t miss signs of depression
Would you know if someone you care about has depression? Most people probably think that they would, but it isn’t necessarily as obvious as you might expect. Indeed, until some simple screening questionnaires were introduced for GPs to use, half of them were missing the diagnosis in patients that came to consult them.
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HG practitioner participates in global congress
HG practitioner Felicity Jaffrey, who lives and works in Egypt, received the extraordinary honour of being invited to speak at Egypt’s hugely prestigious Global Congress on Population, Health and Human Development (PHDC24) in Cairo in October.
SCoPEd - latest update
The six SCoPEd partners have published their latest update on the important work currently underway with regards to the SCoPEd framework implementation, governance and impact assessment.
Date posted: 14/02/2024