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.
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.
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!
People who bring their work home create an ever increasing cycle of stress. If this is happening to you, you will find that you never relax or get time away from work. Your sleep quality will be reduced and this makes you even more tired during the day. Your work suffers as a result as… Read More Why It’s Not A Good Idea To Bring Work Home.
There’s nothing like getting the kids back to school and into a better routine. By the end of very long summer it is great to see the children return to school and into a better routine. Routines always seemed to fall to the wayside during the summer holidays. So in order to get things back to… Read More 10 Tips To Get Your Child Back To School.
Date night doesn’t have to incorporate activities, grand gestures and expensive night outs. Sometimes keeping it simple can be better. They are also great opportunities to step outside the norm of daily life and reduce the stress you feel as a couple. They are also vital to maintaining your relationship because after the kids leave… Read More Why Date Nights Are Critical To Your Relationship?
Those of us who have become obsessed with trying to control everything around us may not realize we are doing it. So our first step as always is to recognise we are doing using this type of behaviour. We can liken this type of behaviour as trying to use our body to hold back floodwaters.… Read More 4 Key Tips To Letting Go Of Controlling Behaviour.
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