Grace Counselling CentreArticles & Resources
Insights on mental health, faith, and well-being from our team of counsellors.(25 articles)
Beating Procrastination
Procrastination, when looked into, involves a series of “seemingly important” preparatory rituals that don’t actually do anything but delay the actual behaviour. Before engaging in the actual task,...
DSM-5 Is a Guide, Not a Bible: Simply Ignore Its 10 Worst Changes
By: Allen Frances Professor Emeritus, Duke University This is the saddest moment in my 45 year career of studying, practicing, and teaching psychiatry. The Board of Trustees of the American...
Review and Regroup
I decided to post on this topic today because just this week alone, I had 2 different people mentioned this to me. There are times in our lives when we feel lost and unsure of our future or what...
It’s The Other Way Around
People want their lives to change but they don’t do anything about it. They simply expect things to change due to the decay of time while they remain stagnant in their existence and development. I...
Marriage: Will Premarital Counselling Help?
I don’t share the sentiments of Tom Cruise’s character Jerry Maguire when he made famous the line: 'you complete me' to convince his lover that he loves her. What Jerry Maguire was saying then was...
Aging Gracefully and Meaningfully
As more and more people are reaching the 100-year-old mark and the old age range of ‘65 and above’, the old age population has never been as healthy and active as today. Compared to the life...
Understanding Cyber-Addiction
The internet is a huge playground of limitless possibilities. Best of all (or worst) is that it can be accessed almost anywhere and by anyone. One of the more common reasons on why people dwell in...
What is Comfortable is Not Always Healthy
Have you seen people stay in a job they have hated for 20 years? Have you met a wife battered by her abusive husband but still choose to stay in the relationship? How about a gambler who knows the...
We Cannot Give What We Don’t Have
People see it all the time in counselling cases and in observing human development: A gambling addict having gamblers for parents, an abuser going through an abused past, an angry person raised by...
Saying ‘Hi’ Can Save a Life
I share the concerns of the people who observed the rise of suicide cases in the nation and in the world. Throughout 2010 I've come across dozens of people, friends and clients alike, who have...