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    Aaron Balick

    Aaron Balick

    Aaron Balick is a UKCP registered integrative psychotherapist. He offers psychotherapy in Clerkenwell, London. He is the author of 'The Psychodynamics of Social Networking: Connected up instantaneous culture and the self', a book which draws together his research into applying psychological thinking to social media and technology. You can also catch him on BBC Radio 1, where is he the resident psychotherapist on 'The Surgery with Aled'. 


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    Why You Should Sometimes Take Things For Granted
    27Aug

    Why You Should Sometimes Take Things For Granted
    Aaron Balick
    family, mindfulness, wellbeing
    Therapists
    If you were lucky, you got through your childhood with no major traumas, except for the odd domestic here and there. If you were one of these lucky people, your childhood was a time of taking things for granted; that your life was safe; that your parents were alive (and were going to stay that way forever); and that your home provided everything you needed.  This is likely to have provided you with a sense of abundance and safety. On balance, everything was probably going to be okay. If you are less lucky, your levels of resilience influence how secure and abundant...
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    Mindfullness is not Mindfulness
    08Jan

    Mindfullness is not Mindfulness
    Aaron Balick
    mindfulness
    Therapists
    The cursor on my screen moves along swiftly. My wifi is off and my mobile is on “do not disturb” – so no emails, no notifications, and no phone-calls or texts. I’m not worried. I know that in about 30 minutes I’ll check all those devices and whatever I need to attend to can wait until then. Just now I have to write this column and I want to be mindful and present for the task. In many ways, there’s something delightfully calming about this, which is paradoxical because it’s still work. It seems that as mindfulness is gaining more space in the public conversation, our...
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