Some would have us believe that to love and care for ourselves is selfish. That is simple not true. We need to start seeing self-love as acts of love and self-care in our everyday life. The choices we make each day can be based on acts of self-love. From meeting our basic self-care needs to… Read More Why Self-Love Is Not An Act Of Selfishness.
Most of us decide to make New Year’s Resolutions, goals or new healthier habits at the start of the New Year that we never achieve. Why is that you might ask? For most it will come down to self-sabotage. Self-sabotage isn’t just one thing it can have many causes but in the end they all… Read More 8 Mistakes That Will Sabotage Your Goals
Back in 2009 I found myself overwhelmed and suffering with PTSD. I was an extremely busy mum of five and I knew I had to readjust my lifestyle if I was to recover. I was lucky enough to find a wonderful therapist who helped me. Yes we psychologists go to therapy too. One of the… Read More One Simple Habit That Changed My Life.
Have you already set some New Year resolutions only you are not implementing them? Well you’re not alone in doing this. It’s that time of year where we set New Year’s resolutions or go full steam ahead on setting goals. But for most of us these only end in failure and we get disheartened. It… Read More A Step By Step Guide To Creating New Habits.
It’s been a difficult year for everyone. This year Christmas in particular may bring up so many strong emotions for us. Feeling painful emotions is hard. We simply don’t want to do it at times and we try to ignore them or dismiss them entirely. So it’s not surprising that we may have been trying… Read More How To Stay Present With Your Emotions.
For many of us the idea of creating a self-care practice might seem selfish. The concept of self-care has become distorted over the years. So much so that we don’t realize that it is through having a basic self-care plan we are more accepting, compassionate and are better able to help others. Self-care is an… Read More Are You Ready To Practice Self-Care?
What Is All Or Nothing Thinking? When we think with an all or nothing mindset we tend to see things in extremes. All or nothing thinking, or black and white thinking, is a form of cognitive distortion. When in this mindset we tend to think in either or terms e.g. “It is perfect”, or “No… Read More Is All Or Nothing Thinking Keeping You Stuck?
Each day we can get so caught up in our hectic lives. We get distracted by so much that goes on and we can lose focus. Life seems to happen at break neck speed some days. We have forgotten how important it is to take time to sit still. To be our most productive we… Read More Why We Need To Allow Ourselves To Find Solitude And Sit Still.
One of the biggest barriers to self-love and self-care is the comparison trap. We can all too easily fall into this trap especially as we spend so much of our time on social media these days. The comparison trap is all too contagious too as the people we interact with can help us get started… Read More 4 Ways To Deal With The Comparison Trap.
Success can come in many shapes and sizes we just have a habit of not recognizing the smaller ones as such. For many of us we feel so busy that each day seems to be like a conveyor belt of things we need to get done. So we certainly don’t have time to think about… Read More Why It’s Important To Celebrate All Our Successes.
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