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Declan Fitzpatrick

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Don’t just do something - Sit there! Useful tips for People-Pleasers.

If you’re a people pleaser, learning to be more assertive can be challenging but empowering. Here are some practical tips to help you...

Declan Fitzpatrick

Oct 134 min read

Staying Sane in a Crazy World.

There's an old Chinese proverb that says, 'May you live in interesting times'. Any of you who've been around over the last ten years can...

Declan Fitzpatrick

May 232 min read

Child Centric Parenting.

Being a parent is tough. It´s the most important job you´ll do in your life and how you do it will have consequences that can echo down...

Declan Fitzpatrick

May 107 min read

Sex Addiction and Intimacy Avoidance.

In some respects the label ‘Sex Addiction’ can be misleading. It can be unhelpful to both those struggling with compulsive sexual...

Declan Fitzpatrick

May 62 min read

The tyranny of romance.

Romance is big business. Not merely every February around Valentine’s Day but all year round, all the time. We are obsessed by notions of...

Declan Fitzpatrick

Aug 28, 20225 min read

Red Flags and Happy Ever After.

I was watching an episode of the series 'The Undoing' starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant last night. In the series Nicole Kidman plays...

Mar 9, 20221 min read

Some thoughts on 'consumerism'.

http://soundcloud.com/declanandchristalktherapy/the-myth-of-consumerism-rt

Mar 9, 20221 min read

Interesting thoughts on the idea of Self-Love.

https://existentialcafe.blog/2021/03/22/the-myth-of-self-love-why-youll-probably-never-learn-to-love-yourself-and-dont-need-to/

Oct 6, 20213 min read

Corona Kicks Therapy into the Twenty-first Century.

It may be a bit early yet but in time we might actually look back at the corona-virus pandemic and see that it produced some useful and...