September 2026

Your Brain Is a Prediction Machine, Not a Truth Teller

If you live with anxiety, self-doubt, or that nagging sense that you are about to be found out, you will know the sense of certainty that comes with it. The thought does not arrive as a maybe, it arrives as a verdict, a fact or reality that is strangely convincing, and your whole body seems […]

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Breathwork: My Regret at Ignoring It for So Long

ACT, Anxiety, Breathwork, CBT, CFT, Dean Watkins Therapy / dwatkins

I want to admit to something I got wrong for a long time. For years I did not value the importance and benefit of breathwork. My training had taught me to be sceptical of it, that the use of breathing exercises could actually operate as a safety-seeking behaviour which would slow down the treatment rather

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