“And then the day came when the risk to remain tight as a bud became more painful that the risk to bloom.” 

Carl Jung identified and explored the dark side of personality: the shadow self. Our shadow contains the parts of ourselves that we deny. The parts we do not dare to see.

Perhaps you can try this once a day for seven days and notice how you feel.

Work-related anxiety is a huge problem for many – a problem that seems to be getting worse instead of better. Indeed, research by the UK Council for Psychotherapy has shown that anxiety and depression rates amongst UK employees have risen by almost a third in four years.

The last warm days. The first crunch of brown leaves. The curious urge to buy a new pencil case. We may have finished school years ago, but for many adults the rhythm of the academic year never quite leaves us.