Rohan Misthry

Finding your own way, or even ways, to say goodbye to the person you loved might be an important part of your experience of grief.

How are you doing at the moment? I’ve noticed myself recently feeling a lack of motivation and energy to do things, more so than I normally would. I’ve been trying to write this blog post for some time and have really struggled with finding the motivation to do so. Anecdotally, speaking with friends, family, colleagues and clients it seems that I am not the only one experiencing this too. Many of them report feeling, unmotivated, fed up, tired, feeling teary at times, angry,

The challenge of social isolation and distancing As a way of responding to the threat of the Corona Virus, people in countries from all across the world are being asked, and ordered, to drastically reduce their social interactions with others to limit the spread of the virus. This will be a necessary but stressful experience for a large amount of people for a number of reasons. We are social animals, and often in times of difficulty and uncertainty one of the best ways we can

When we talk and think about loss and bereavement it is often in relation to when someone dies. There are however many other different types of loss not involving someone's death that can often bring about a similar process of grief and its accompanying feelings. Often other types of loss are brushed over or not acknowledged by others and even ourselves. We might then feel confused or that there is something wrong with us when we experience grief and it’s accompanying emotion

Loss and death are natural parts of life that we often struggle to talk and even think about. There is a large taboo around talking about death in western culture; as adults we all know that one day we are all going to die and yet we spend so little time talking about this or its consequences. Perhaps part of our aversion to the topic is that it is part of a larger phenomena in Western culture where some emotions are seen as negative and to express or talk about them is seen

Going to counselling for the first time can seem like taking a leap into the unknown. Whilst mental health and counselling is being talked about more openly than ever, there is still a lot of misinformation out there about what counselling is and how it works practically. Most people’s understanding of what counselling is like often comes from tv, films and books. There the counsellors and therapists are often depicted behaving bizarrely, without appropriate boundaries and un