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Sally Baker, Senior Therapist, Therapy Insights

When Life Catches Up With the Age They Were

This year, I will reach the age my mother was when she died. During the same year, my grandson is approaching the age my

Sally Baker, Senior Therapist, Therapy Insights

Done Is Better Than Perfect: The Tyranny of Perfectionism

We tend to speak about perfectionism as though it is an admirable quality. Job applicants proudly describe themselves as perfectionists during interviews. Friends joke

Family, Therapy Insights

When trauma comes home: the emotional cost of loving someone who is suffering

When former England football captain Terry Butcher spoke publicly about losing his son Christopher after years of struggling with military-related PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress

Sally Baker, Senior Therapist, Therapy Insights

Why are we harsher on ourselves than anyone else?

In her recent autobiography, Famesick, the writer, actor, and director of the acclaimed TV series ‘Girls,’ Lena Dunham reflected that people online were cruel to

Sally Baker, Senior Therapist, Therapy Insights

When Reality TV Stops Feeling Real…

Programmes such as Married at First Sight UK are sold as entertainment, a social experiment, romance and conflict. But behind the glossy edits, dramatic

Family

How growing up poor shapes the nervous system into adulthood

Actor, comedian, and writer Robby Hoffman plays the role of Randi in Season 5 of Hacks, currently streaming on HBO and Prime Video. In

Sally Baker, Senior Therapist

Can a kitchen disco help process trauma and stress?

Yes. A kitchen disco can help your body process stress and trauma by allowing your nervous system to complete responses that thinking alone cannot

Family, Relationships

The unexpected joy of being a “baad” grandma

There is a kind of joy I was not expecting. It is not loud or dramatic. It arrives in small moments and then stays.

Improve Health & Well-Being

Burnout rarely arrives all at once, it builds gradually, then takes over

Burnout is often described as a sudden collapse. In practice, it is a gradual narrowing of capacity. People do not go from functioning well

Relationships

Why some friendships lift you while others wear you down

Some friendships feel like oxygen. You leave the table lighter, clearer, more yourself. Others are harder to name. There is no obvious conflict, no

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Sally Baker is a senior therapist & media commentator. She is a published author and speaker in private practice in London and the world over via the internet.

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She has extensive experience working with people to alleviate their anxiety, depression, anger issues, eating disorders as well as conflicts within relationships and the family.

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