What Loving Relationships Are Made Of
Most of us want to have the experience of being in a loving relationship. We have ideas and fantasies that lead to expectations … often unrealistic ones that end in disappointment. These days romantic...
Emotional Safety: The Main Ingredient of Healthy Relating
A healthy relationship requires a solid foundation of trust. Trust emerges when we feel emotionally safe. In order to feel truly emotionally safe with someone else, we have to feel secure within ourselves. ...
What Love Is Not
Sometimes we love someone and are in a relationship with them that is built on hope. Hope for change. Hope for improvement. Hope for connection. The substance of those kinds of relationships is hope....
Love Means To Value, Not Use
As human beings we have an innate drive to value and also like to feel valued. When we grow up being valued by our caregivers, we learn to value ourselves and expect this from...
The Soothing Effect of ‘We’ Language
‘We’ versus ‘You’ Relationships: there really is no ‘I’ in team We are innately wired for relationship and unless our mind tells us otherwise we naturally seek connection with others. While it is reassuring...
About Me
Marlena Tillhon is a UK psychotherapist and passionate about helping people reconnect with their innate wellbeing. She is also the co-founder and co-owner of Clarity Counselling providing high-quality and progressive psychotherapy in Staffordshire, Nottingham and Manchester.