This discussion reminded me of the unique experience of being a therapist. I am so grateful for my guest (an educational psychologist) sharing some of her thoughts and experience with having to get to the difficult decision of changing her practice as a psychologist for her own mental health and wellbeing. Asking for help, when you are the one usually offering the help, can be such a difficult thing to do. Psychologists often suffer in silence, becuase your problems might always seem minute...

In this episode I am reminded about how important our relationship with ourselves is. I truly believe that it is essential for us to be able to develop empathy and understanding with ourselves in order to be able to truly heal and do things differently moving forward. But that can be so hard, especially if we are used to motivating ourselves and holding ourselves responsible by being critical. This is also a reminder of the massive impact that our environment has on us in terms of the beliefs...

One of the parts about being a therapist that I am most grateful for is the opportunity that I get on a daily basis for people to share their stories with me. I feel so priveledged to be able to wittness other’s journeys and I find it such a meaningful interaction, where we get to think about their experiences togehter and try to gain better understanding, while at the same time learning so much about life and us as human beings myself. My hope with this podcast is to be able to share a...

Welcome back to another episode of Inside Your Head! It has been a while since we released an episode and I am beyond excited to share this episode with you! I had the most heartfelt, real and vulnerable discussion with Natasha Joubert, who is well known for being the second runner up in Miss South Africa in 2020 and she was appointed to represent South Africa at Miss Universe in 2021. Natasha has a B.Com Marketing Management degree as well as her own company, Natalia Jeffreys. She is a...

Welcome back to another episode of Inside Your Head! It has been a while since we released an episode and I am beyond excited to share this episode with you! I had the most interesting discussion with Devon Brough, who is a transformation powerhouse who has a contagious energy and passionate zest for life. As an author, speaker, and coach he has committed his purpose to helping people get unstuck, inspiring them to transform their life with a focus on achieving breakthroughs in areas of...

Welcome back to another episode of inside your head! I am your host, Christel Roets, clinical psychologist and founder of Psych Central South Africa. Lately I have been finding myself in a space where I have a bigger need for meditation, being still with myself and really focusing on generating internal strength and self love. I have been struggling to find guided meditations, one because there’s so many of them, and two, I don’t really know what to search for. I decided that maybe it might...

Welcome back to another episode of Inside your Head! What you think, you become, you believe. This is our topic for today! These powerful words are a mantra that our guest, The Yogi Paige, lives by. Join us for a conversation where Paige shares what this mantra has looked like in her life, recovering from substance abuse and overcoming body dysmorphia. With 16 years of experience and over 1000 hours of yoga and meditation training, Paige is definitely an expert in the health and wellness...

Welcome back to another episode of Inside Your Head! I am super excited to share today’s discussion with all of you. I am having a chat to Sabrina from Asana Tribe, about yoga, sleep- and sound therapy and our mental health. Yoga is about so much more than just interesting poses that leaves you feeling quite stiff. More and more research is showing that it has major mental health benefits as well, especially in the treatment of anxiety. A little bit more about Sabrina: As an...

Welcome back to another episode of Inside Your Head. In this episode, I had a chat with Lizé van der Walt about “thinking about your thinking”. I know that this might sound a bit strange, but have you actually stopped and listened to what runs through your thoughts on a daily basis? Can you imagine how someone else would feel if they heard those same things you are thinking the whole day? In this episode we discuss some common mind-traps that people fall in to and how this can affect your...

In this short episode, I share some of my thoughts on burnout. More and more people are finding themselves in a state of burnout, and I truly believe that it is about more than just managing your time better or than taking more frequent breaks. We often try to look at things on the surface, and I think it is so important to also look at how our identity might be rooted in having to be the overachiever or the hard-worker who find themselves in a state of burnout. It has become an admirable...

Welcome back to another episode of Inside your head! I’m your host, Christel Roets, clinical psychologist and founder of Psych Central South Africa. I want to take some time to thank each and every person who has listened to our podcast and showed us so much love an appreciation! In this episode I have a chat with Thembelihle Mashigo. Thembelihle is such an interesting person, being a counselling psychologist as well as an indigenous healer. This was such an insightful discussion that we had...

Welcome back to another episode of Inside your head! In this episode I have a chat with Kerri Dimant, who is an educational psychologist, about emotional regulation. Emotional regulation is not only important for kids, but also for adults and actually human beings. So take some time to understand how we experience emotions and how we can learn to manage them. Emotional regulation is at the core of our emotional and psychological functioning. If we are not able to regulate our emotions, it...

Welcome back to another episode of Inside your head! I’m your host, Christel Roets, clinical psychologist and founder of Psych Central South Africa. I want to take some time to thank each and every person who has listened to our podcast and showed us so much love an appreciation! This has become one of my new favorite things to do and with each episode I am learning so much more about myself and how we function as human beings. This episode was extra special and important for me to have. I...

Welcome back to another episode of Inside your head! Self-compassion is about more than just practicing self-care or doing nice things for yourself. Self-compassion takes courage and bravery. It links to how we regulate emotions, our boundaries and 4how we even navigate relationships. Today I chat to Maroné Oosthuizen, counselling psychologist at our Rosebank branch, about this topic. Self-compassion is more than just a topic for Maroné, she has invested a lot of her time in understanding...

In this week's episode of Inside Your Head, I chat to Boledi Tladi, a counselling psychologist, about the new word on the block: psychedelics. We chat about how it is used in psychedelic-assisted therapy, how it impacts us psychologically and various factors people need to consider before using it. Psychedelics is actually not such a new thing and there has been more and more research done to understand how it affects our brain and can potentially benefit our emotional and psychological...

Welcome back to another episode of inside your head! Today I will be having a chat again with Tova Steiner, counselling psychologist. The very first episode of Inside your head was with Tova, where we discussed attachment and after some further discussions we decided to do another episode about relationships. Specifically about the mystery of desire and attraction. You really want to listen to this one. We touch on why we choose the partner we do and why we are attracted to them, why...

Boundaries! We all know we need them, but damn they can be so hard to navigate!In this episode of Inside Your Head, I chat to Shelley Bernhard, a counselling psychologist, about boundaries. We chat about boundaries, not only in relationships, but also with yourself. How setting boundaries are not about you saying NO to others, but rather saying YES to yourself. Shelley shares some of her thoughts on why some people struggle to set boundaries and how and where we can start if we need to get...

In today's episode I will be having a solo chat. After having a heart to heart with my husband about hard things and feelings I have faced and are currently facing, I felt an urge to chat about this topic.We all have to face hard things in life. And that can be scary as f. I often ask myself/ the universe what the point of all of these hard things are, and honestly sometimes I don’t have the answer. If I reflect on the last few years of my life, I kind of feel that this has been my motto and...

In this episode of Inside Your Head, I chat to Kayleigh Luntz, an educational psychologist, about tantrums. Weather we like it or not, tantrums seem to be an inevitable part of a child's development. They are uncomfortable and sometimes quite overwhelming, and therefor it is so important for parents to equip themselves with skills and have strategies to make those moments a bit more bearable and manageable. Kayleigh shares some of her tips with parents around making transitions smoother and...

In our very first episode of Inside Your Head, I chat to Tova Steiner, a counselling psychologist, about attachment. Attachment can be such an abstract concept to think of, yet so crucial in our daily experiences. Our attachment style refers to how we view ourselves, the world and ourselves in the world. Tova shares her thoughts on how things like trauma can impact our attachment and experience of the world, how our relationships are navigated accordingly and how to work on your attachment...

Welcome to Inside Your Head. The podcast where we discuss anything and everything related to your mental health and wellbeing. I am Christel Roets, clinical psychologist and founder of Psych Central South Africa. Being a psychologist is about so much more to me than listening to people and helping them with their problems. To me, being a psychologist is about helping people find themselves, building a relationship with themselves, accepting themselves and (re-)discovering parts of themselves....