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  Often when I’m in session with a client I’m reminding them that mental health is an illness and not who they are. The anxiety, depression , anger outburst, heavy fog … is not who they are … it's often just a mental mess. An analogy we often use at Next Step is that when someone gets a broken leg it doesn’t define who they are. It is just an accident or a break that needs to be treated. So what do we do when we break a leg? Well we go to a doctor (a GP here in Australia) and they will promptly send us off to a hospital to get an X-ray. Often after the X-ray (and the diagnosis is confi ..read more

  Failure is an event, it's not an identity … it’s something that happens on the way to a destination. The journey will have twists and turns and ups and downs on the way, but don’t let it stop you from moving. One of the biggest fears I find with clients and in life is a fear of failure. We don’t step into the unknown because we’re afraid of failing. And I want to encourage you today to turn failure on its head … so how do we do this? We use humor and treat it as a learning experience. I remember working in the Gold Coast on the East Coast of Australia and my wife and I had started a ..read more