'Society places enormous value on 'getting tasks over the line' such as work deadlines, getting the kids to school on time, paying our bills diligently, keeping a neat and tidy house etc...but VERY LITTLE value is placed on truly loving our bodies, especially if this should in any way disrupt our performance in 'getting tasks over the line'. What an absurd world we live in!' - Brendan Mooney Psychologist
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'Society places enormous value on 'getting tasks over the line' such as work deadlines, getting the kids to school on time, paying our bills diligently, keeping a neat and tidy house etc...but VERY LITTLE value is placed on truly loving our bodies, especially if this should in any way disrupt our performance in 'getting tasks over the line'. What an absurd world we live in!' - Brendan Mooney Psychologist 'We can choose to change our behaviours, clothes, and outside environment. We can choose to go on holidays or change jobs, get a new partner or have a bath at the end of the day. However, unless we choose to change the actual quality we perform all these activities in, we have not truly made a different choice, but instead merely improved our landscape, so to speak, on the outside'. - Brendan Mooney Psychologist 'Realising we have a CHOICE is very freeing to the otherwise imprisoning belief that life just happens to us and we have no control over it'. - Brendan Mooney Psychologist 'When people hear the word ‘detached’ it can bring up beliefs about being heartless, clinical or cold towards another. However being detached is simply not taking on another’s issue/s, understanding that it is their issue not yours to deal with. Whilst we can provide all the support a person requires, ultimately it is up to them to address whatever is troubling them…so to never take on their issue as your own and work through it. Otherwise the ‘helper’ essentially becomes a ‘human sponge’, taking on everyone else’s issues under the belief that somehow they are doing good.' - Brendan Mooney Psychologist 'Food is a daily part of our lives, hence the importance of developing a relationship with food that is truly supportive for our health and wellbeing.' - Brendan Mooney Psychologist 'Whilst a practitioner’s role is often focused on supporting clients to take better care of themselves, as practitioners we ought to bring equal focus to supporting ourselves too. Unfortunately this is often not the case.' - Brendan Mooney Psychologist
'What if as a society we have created false versions of 'truth', which then sadly results in us turning away from what is in fact true?' - Brendan Mooney Psychologist 'Deep down we are all the same, irrespective of race, religion, nationality or any other 'difference'. So why do we continue to invest in the latter as a form of identification?' - Brendan Mooney Psychologist 'When we withdraw from life we set ourselves up to experience all the typical symptoms of depression. This type of withdrawal is an inner withdrawal, and may involve a person physically withdrawing from people or employment but not necessarily. And whilst a person may feel justified in their reason to withdraw, it is nevertheless always a choice that we make that need not be.' - Brendan Mooney Psychologist 'Whilst we may fool others, at the end of the day we sleep in the quality of our own making.' - Brendan Mooney Psychologist 'When underlying issue/s begin to be addressed, sometimes symptoms can initially increase – in other words it can appear in the short-term that a person's condition is becoming worse. However, it is not that the client’s condition is becoming worse but that a deeper layer of what is unresolved is being exposed to be cleared.' - Brendan Mooney Psychologist 'It takes deep understanding to honour what is true when everyone else around you is choosing the opposite.' - Brendan Mooney Psychologist 'We can engage in many behaviours under the belief they will protect us from getting hurt, but have we really considered the true impact this way of living has on our lives?' - Brendan Mooney Psychologist
'If we hold back expressing what is true are we not denying another an opportunity to deepen within themselves?' - Brendan Mooney Psychologist
'What if we not only chose more supportive activities for ourselves but also consciously chose the quality of movement we did all the activities in?' - Brendan Mooney Psychologist
'Exercise can be a mere functional activity that we do, or it can be a great opportunity to deepen our relationship with our bodies.' - Brendan Mooney Psychologist
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