Mental Health Insights
The Naum Centre's growing library of evidence-informed articles designed to help you better understand mental health, relationships and emotional wellbeing.
Explore practical strategies, concepts, and everyday tools covering topics such as anxiety, ADHD, trauma, grief, boundaries, stress, identity and personal growth.
Whether you're looking to better understand yourself, support someone else, or complement your counselling journey, our articles aim to make mental health knowledge accessible, practical and relevant to everyday life.
Why Do I Always Attract the Same Relationship Patterns?
If you keep noticing the same dynamic in different relationships, it's rarely a coincidence or bad luck.
Your attachment style, the pattern of relating you learned early in life, shapes who feels familiar to you now, including partners who repeat dynamics you already know. Recognising the pattern is usually the first step to changing it.
How to Set Boundaries Without Feeling Guilty
Feeling guilty after setting a boundary is common and doesn't mean you've done something wrong.
Guilt usually shows up because saying no feels unfamiliar, not because it's unkind. State the boundary clearly and briefly, without over-explaining, then let the discomfort settle. It tends to fade with practice.