Is Brutal Honesty Required to End Codependency?
Do we need to be brutally honest with ourselves to end our codependent patterns? Or could approaching ourselves with compassion help us to get even more honest with ourselves?
The Main Factor Of A Loving Relationship: A Loving State of Mind
A loving relationship is what most of us want. Thousands of books have been written exploring and listing different ways of creating it. And yet, there is only one main factor that decides whether...
Insecurity, Thief of Love
The Pain of Insecurity Sometimes we all feel insecure. We feel insecure and we try to hide it. We try to suppress it. We try to rationalise it. We try to avoid it. We...
Breaking Through Fear: Who Do You Think You Are … Not To Be You?
Writing is one of my biggest passions. I have always wanted to be a writer. But I have a fear of writing. Or so I thought … I see writing as self-expression. It is...
Why The Sacrifice Of Self Is Not An Act of Love
We live in a world in which most people strive to earn or experience love while completely misunderstanding what love really is. While being stuck in various misunderstandings about love, we often become...
Responsive Self-Care: Lessons from EFT
A.R.E You There For Yourself? Great overall progress can be made when we draw on other areas of research. For example, by drawing on knowledge of child development and a child’s attachment needs, couples...
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....
Insecurity, Thief of Love
Sometimes we all feel insecure. We feel insecure and we try to hide it. We try to suppress it. We try to rationalise it. We try to avoid it. We do many things in...
Self-Care: just why?!
Self-Care Many people flinch when they hear the term self-care. Worse still, some don’t even know about it. Often that’s because no one taught us or because the people who raised us did not...
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.