The unseen causes and consequences of bullying

“People bully others, or tolerate being bullied by others, in an unconscious effort to protect themselves, either emotionally, or physically, or both”. Kim Knight Bullying can appear in many shapes and forms, and in all walks of life: it can happen at school or university, at work or at home. But why is it people become bullies? Why is it we tolerate …

Do you look in the mirror and love or hate what you see?

So here’s the thing. I know what it’s like to look in the mirror and ‘hate myself’. In my twenties I was very attractive and slim, and yet when I looked in the mirror all I saw was ugly and fat. At the time I thought what I was looking at was real. And then in my 40’s I saw …

Real and False Guilt – and why 95% of guilt is false and unnecessary

Most people experience guilt, but not many question why, or know how to deal with it. Over the years I have learnt there are essentially two types of guilt: True (healthy) guilt… and false (unhealthy) guilt. Let’s look at both of them. First of all healthy guilt. This is the type of guilt we feel when we have genuinely done …

What you need to know about Secondary Gain

“When we’ve finally had enough, and we can no longer take the pain of our situation one moment longer, we make a decision that things are going to be different, even if we don’t yet know how, and from that one decision EVERYTHING changes. And I mean EVERYTHING”. Kim Knight A life changing opportunity awaits if you are ready… If you’re experiencing …

If I wrote my clients a love letter, this is what I’d say…

If I were to write a letter to you, my client, or future client, this is what I would say. And I mean every word of it… I’d like to share with you how much I love and respect you for who you are, your willingness to be open, vulnerable and honest with me, and share your deepest pains and …

Why it’s beneficial to stop getting hooked on the label of a condition or therapy

Over the years, working as a multi-disciplinary therapist, I have noticed several common themes amongst expectations from clients around healing, and one overriding common expectation is this: ‘THIS (xyz) therapy is going to heal me – it will be THE answer’. Since 1985 I have personally recovered without medication or supplements from multiple chronic ailments including clinical depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, …

5 ways to clear depression without medication

It’s a sad state of affairs that today so many people are reliant on anti-depressants to manage their life. As someone who has suffered intense depression, I know how bad depression feels. I ended up in hospital many years ago with severe depression, but intuitively I knew I did not want to take medication. Actually I tried it for about 3 …

The 7 Types of Fatigue which lead to Chronic Fatigue and ME

There can be much misunderstanding and confusion over the real meaning behind symptoms of ‘chronic fatigue’, and what actually causes various kinds and types of debilitating exhaustion. There can also be much confusion over the difference between the labels of ‘ME’ (myalgic encephalomyelitis), ‘chronic fatigue syndrome’ (CFS), ‘post viral fatigue’, burnout, ‘adrenal fatigue’ and more, all conditions which leave one …

Digital Healthcare is Coming. Are you Ready?

“Understanding what causes illness and knowing how to self-manage symptoms is one of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves”. Kim Knight This week at the Cloud in Health Symposium in Auckland, we were given a glimpse of the future of IT-driven healthcare for New Zealand. Three themes stood out: New Zealand is moving to a VIRTUAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM where …