Toxic workplace environments affect everyone working in the business whether they are aware of it or not. Unfortunately it rarely stays in the workplace either and generally follows you into your private life. It’s not just the “oh no it’s Monday morning” feeling or the one off high stressor of a day. It’s the dread… Read More Recovering From Leaving A Toxic Workplace.
It is quite common for children to suffer with fear, anxiety and worry at times. Usually as children develop a greater sense of their world and explore their surroundings fear is an inevitable part of growing up. A fear of the dark, strangers, fire, thunderstorms, and animals, etc., may be common place and this usually… Read More Helping Children Over Come Their Fears.
Stress, anxiety, fear, tiredness, can all diminish our ability to focus. Before we know it we are in a negative cycle and feeling like we are constantly running to catch up. In the end something has to give and more than likely that will be our ability to focus on any task at hand. This… Read More 12 Tips That Help You Regain Your Focus
We know we should look after ourselves better as mums. We’ve all heard the phrase “you cannot serve from an empty cup”. But let’s be honest here who has the time? I know when my children were younger it certainly felt like I had no time for myself. Let’s face it, it can feel like… Read More The Importance Of Having A Basic Self-Care Routine In A Busy World.
1 Make Sleep A Priority If you want to improve your sleep then you need to make it a priority for you. We need between 7 and 9 hours sleep each night once we become adults. Teens and children will need more sleep. (You can find a blog and podcast on sleep and helping children/teens… Read More 11 Tips To Help You Get A Better Night’s Sleep.
What Is Gaslighting? The term gaslighting comes from an old 1944 film called Gaslight. It is a recognised form of psychological manipulation in which one person (or group of people) targets another individual in order to make them question their own memory, perception of reality or judgements they make. The perpetrator uses tactics, such as denial,… Read More How To Recognise Gaslighting In Relationships.
The stresses and pressures from society demands that our attention changes quickly. We are becoming more addicted to technology, most of the time without knowing it. This creates more mental habits of distraction, attention switching, and places more stress on our mental and physical systems. We are in fact exposed to more information in one… Read More Meditation: One Quick Breathing Technique To Retrain The Mind.
We can view failure as a negative, and only a negative, in our lives. But what if we learnt to reframe our thinking just a bit and could see failure in a more positive light? What would that do to our thinking, our decisions, and our ability to grow and learn? It certainly would change… Read More Reframing Our Thinking About Failure.
Around 20% of school-aged children and teens will experience anxiety. For most these relate to school or their families. I’m not going to outline the symptoms or causes in this blog as I’ve already outlined these in detail here. What I do want to concentrate on is giving you some strategies to help your child.… Read More Helping Children To Worry Less
For most of us the word no is particularly hard to say. There can be a multitude of reasons why that is and I’ll list some of these below. Many of us say yes to everything, and everyone, it seems to be our default setting. We end up with a constantly growing to do list… Read More Why We Struggle To Say No.
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