Man lying on bed looking at mobile phone with a cup in the foreground

Why can’t I relax, even when nothing is wrong?

When your mind never seems to switch off  Brian (name changed), an outwardly successful high-flying executive in his late thirties, sat down in my therapy room at the beginning of our first session together and with a sigh and a strained voice declared,  “I don’t know how to relax. My thoughts feel like an express…

Relax: Watching people using their hands

Stuck at home I don’t always want to chat with friends and family or listen to any more news, podcasts or watch TV drama or read a book. Yet I want to be taken out of myself. I want to be elsewhere and with my own thoughts at the same time. Being engaged in an…