Articles by Clara Bridges

26Jul

Watching the Clock: How Time-Keeping and Trust Relate in Therapy

Clara Bridges

self, therapy

Mind

Therapy client Clara Bridges explores her feelings towards the length of therapy sessions, and how this brings valuable material into the therapy room
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16Apr

Susie Orbach's In Therapy: A Client's View

Clara Bridges

therapy

Mind

Mental health blogger and therapy client Clara Bridges hears Susie Orbach speak in Cambridge about her book In Therapy
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09Mar

I'm a Mother, But Mother's Day Isn't For Me

Clara Bridges

child, mother, mothersday, self

Relationships

Clara Bridges shares her pain surrounding Mother's Day. Though now a mother herself, celebrating mothers brings up painful memories of childhood emotional neglect
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11Dec

What You Wear to Therapy: Communication, Disguise, and Defence

Clara Bridges

identity, self, therapy

Mind

Therapy client Clara Bridges ruminates on the significance of what she wears when she visits her therapist
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26Oct

In Response to the Guardian's 'Personality Disorders at Work'

Clara Bridges

BPD, work

Mind

Clara Bridges, who has borderline personality disorder, responds to the Guardian's misinformed piece on "how to spot personality disorders in the workplace"
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31Aug

What Boundaries Should Therapists Respect on Social Media?

Clara Bridges

socialmedia, therapist, therapy

Mind

When Clara Bridges was approached by a therapist, who was also a client, via social media, she felt a boundary had been crossed
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12Jul

7 Acts of Self-Care for Better Mental Health

Clara Bridges

selfcare, therapy

Mind

Clara Bridges, who has bordlerine personality disorder, adds to the self-care list that keeps her well during the summer therapy break
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06Jul

This is Why Self-Care Makes Such a Difference During the Therapy Break

Clara Bridges

selfcare, therapy

Mind

As she approaches the summer break in her therapy, Clara Bridges reports on how small acts of self-care make the time apart from her therapist easier to cope with
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01Mar

Wise Words #16: On the Self and Relationships

Clara Bridges

couple, marriage, self, WiseWords

Soul

Therapy client Clara Bridges chooses books on Transactional Analysis and principles for marriage as key texts for helping her own relationship
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23Feb

What I Learned from Googling My Therapist

Clara Bridges

therapist, therapy

Mind

The relationship between client and therapist can be extremely close. But does using Google to dig deeper make it dangerous asks client Clara Bridges
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08Feb

WiseWords #14: from Irvin Yalom to Stephen Grosz

Clara Bridges

books, therapy, WiseWords

Soul

Therapy client Clara Bridges, who has borderline personality disorder, chooses favourite books on therapy by Irvin Yalom, Stephen Grosz and Susan Howard
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06Jan

How Yin Yoga Supports my Therapy

Clara Bridges

health, meditation, self, therapy, yoga

Body

Clara Bridges has borderline personality disorder and she finds that practising yin yoga works alongside her therapy to help her cope with it
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12Dec

A Letter to My Therapist at Christmas

Clara Bridges

family, self, therapy

Mind

Some therapy clients find it challenging when there are breaks in therapy. Christmas can be a tricky time posts client Clara Bridges
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18Oct

Can You Grieve Something You Never Had?

Clara Bridges

child, identity, mother, therapy

Mind

I never had unconditional acceptance from my mother, but with therapy I am finally experiencing what that feels like, writes Clara Bridges
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05Oct

I was Sexually Attracted to My Therapist

Clara Bridges

emotions, love, sex, therapy

Relationships

I was shocked to be sexually attracted to my older, female therapist. But talking to her about this "erotic transference" has helped me understand it
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24Aug

What You Want Isn't Always What You Need in Therapy

Clara Bridges

self, therapy

Mind

How do you choose the right therapist? Clara Bridges lists the three lessons about choosing a therapist that being in therapy has taught her
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07Oct

​Therapy Helped Me to See the Ways in Which I Really See Myself

Clara Bridges

anger, depression, mother, self, therapy

Mind

Clara reveals how therapy has become her ultimate 'safe place', where she can come to terms with long-term issues and learn about herself
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