It’s coming up to that time of the year when we feel pressurized into making some New Year’s resolutions. It becomes so overwhelming just thinking about what you “should” pick. Plus add to that the pressure to succeed or feeling like you are failing yet again when you don’t. By the way most people don’t… Read More One Small New Year’s Resolution.
Research shows us that getting creative involves so many disciplines and can be so beneficial to our mental and physical health. These disciplines include art, music, writing, sports, card and board games, cooking, gardening, etc., in fact so many of our hobbies and interests. Most of all creativity allows us to step away from our stressful and… Read More 5 Types Of Creativity You Can Use To Connect With Your Child Over Christmas.
Toxic family can be the hardest to set boundaries and deal with over Christmas. For some they don’t realize how hard their negativity is to be around. But others are even more toxic and have little regard for others. Here are two tips to help you deal with them? 1 Have Your Deflections Ready. Once you know… Read More 2 Tips To Help Deal With Negative Family At Christmas.
All relationships have their ups and downs. We may not have learnt how to communicate in a healthy manner as children or deal with conflict appropriately. We may have learnt to stay quiet for the sake of peace or that our opinions, feelings, needs, etc., were not as valid as other’s opinions, etc. But we can learn good… Read More Steps To Healthy Conflict Resolution.
Why Do We Enable Others? Do you ever find yourself doing the same thing you swore you wouldn’t do for someone? Saying yes when you meant no? Then feeling really annoyed at yourself and the other person, only to then feel guilty for feeling annoyed? You’re not alone, we can all get stuck enabling someone… Read More 1 Key Element That Can Keep Us Stuck Enabling Others.
We all need to have healthy boundaries in place. These 5 are some of the common types we need. Read through the common boundary types and ask yourself: Which of these are you better at putting place? Are you better at putting place boundaries at work or at home? Are there specific people, events or… Read More Common Boundary Types We Need.
If you want to reduce your to do list then you need to learn the skill of saying no to people and tasks. Start by saying no to any more commitments until you establish what you want to commit to in the future. Remember the saying, if you want something done ask a busy person?… Read More Time To Learn To Say No!
You Have To Clear The Decks. It’s all very well and good making some changes to our lifestyle but if we don’t start to cut back on our to do list then we won’t reduce our stress. It’s that simple. Reviewing your priorities is one of the quickest ways to reduce your stress and re-establish… Read More Review Your To Do List!
What Are Grounding Exercises? Grounding exercises can help us when we are feeling overwhelmed by unwanted thoughts, memories (including flashbacks) and feelings associated with anxiety and trauma. You can also use them if you are triggered by stress. Grounding exercises can help to re-center and calm the body and mind. They can help us to… Read More A Grounding Exercise You Might Find Useful.
When you find yourself feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, fear, anger, etc., then using the STOP method can help. The STOP simply stands for stop, take a breath, observe and proceed and is a good grounding tool. This is a mindfulness based technique that should take under a minute the more you practice it. At… Read More What Is The STOP Method?
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