The Meaning Matrix – 3 Essential Questions to Uncover Your Life's Purpose
A common prompt that pushes mature adults into psychotherapy is a vague feeling of disappointment that sometimes follows the achievement...
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Austin Dowling
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Spiritual Intelligence – what is it and 4 ways to cultivate it.
You may be hearing increasing mentions of spiritual intelligence in the media, not least because there is a growing body of research...
Austin Dowling
4 min read
Is Indecision the New Smoking? The Silent Threat to Mental Health and 4 Approaches to Overcome it
So you’ve just reconnected with your former mentor who has offered you a role in his new Series-C funded startup. You weren’t really...
Austin Dowling
5 min read
Overcoming Executive Stress: 5 simple approaches to turning career disillusionment into personal growth.
Did you ever get what you wanted, only to realize it wasn’t what you wanted? Here are 5 tips to turn disillusionment into productive growth
Austin Dowling
4 min read
Five warning signs your date is Emotionally Unavailable (with a side of Taylor Swift's attachment style therapy...)
Dating is a rough sport. A friend recently likened it to donning gladiatorial armor and stepping out into the arena. By that rationale,...
Austin Dowling
4 min read
"If you can't love yourself how the hell are you gonna love somebody else?" .... well sorta, there are easier paths to queer self-esteem...
We hear it every Monday, as Drag Race draws to a close. I hear it often from clients in therapy, queer and straight, the idea of...
Austin Dowling
3 min read
6 Approaches to Surviving A Toxic Family
When faced with dysfunctional family dynamics, one of the most important questions to consider is how to protect ourselves, how to limit...
Austin Dowling
5 min read
Humans Need Humans
The most significant area that Pop Psychology tends to ignore isthe epidemic of loneliness. The desire to have meaningful, enriching human c
Austin Dowling
4 min read
The Silent Traumas Queer Youth Experience
Queer youth experience a series of low-key traumas that arise just by living in a heteronormative world. These low-key experiences are...
Austin Dowling
4 min read
The Power of Purpose
If you reflect on your life, chances are that you experienced periods where you felt particularly successful or energized or fulfilled. ...
Austin Dowling
5 min read
Setting Healthy Boundaries – What the Self-Help Books Don’t Tell Us
When we establish a boundary, we are changing how we participate in a relationship, and these changes can trigger emotions like grief, doubt
Austin Dowling
4 min read
Are you in a Corporate Cult?
A friend recently started work as an executive with a very large global tech company and was told at his induction to forget everything...
Austin Dowling
5 min read
Self Forgiveness
You have heard it said that we can’t change the past, but we can forgive ourselves in order to create a better future. Sounds great, but...
Austin Dowling
3 min read
Make Friends with your Anxiety
For many of us, anxiety is a constant presence. You know the pattern, you’re already worried about the presentation, the relationship,...
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