How to achieve your New Year’s Resolutions

How to achieve your New Year’s Resolutions

Welcome to the New Year! This is the time when many of us review our lives and think about what we could do to improve ourselves, our situation and our lives. However surveys show that a whopping 43-95% of new years resolutions are abandoned by the end of January!...
Top 10 books on positive and gentle parenting

Top 10 books on positive and gentle parenting

Positive or gentle parenting sometimes gets a bad press. Mainly because people can mistake it for parenting with no rules or boundaries. This really couldn’t be further from the truth. In positive or gentle parenting we prioritise our connection with children and...
Let’s talk about burnout

Let’s talk about burnout

Most of us know a colleague or someone in our circle who has suffered from occupational burnout. It’s a serious problem in industrial societies, with huge personal, social, relational and financial costs. We regularly see clients with symptoms of burnout at Compass...
Shinrin-yoku: The practice of forest bathing

Shinrin-yoku: The practice of forest bathing

Shinrin-yoku is a wellness and mindfulness technique that was developed in Japan in the 1980s. It means “forest bathing” or “taking in the forest atmosphere”.  It originally emerged as an antidote to tech-boom burnout and to help people reconnect with and protect...
Introducing Hatty Francis-Ehnholm

Introducing Hatty Francis-Ehnholm

Hatty Francis-Ehnholm is one of the co-owners of Compass Psychology alongside Annabel Battersby. To find out more about Hatty’s professional background and the services she provides, you can read her Compass Psychology profile here. In this post, she will be...