Building trust in yourself again is hard, it is something that requires patience with yourself. It is something that requires time and practice. Practice, practice and more practice. There can be many reasons why we lose contact or stopped trusting our gut instinct. Usually it involves someone else coming in to our lives and abusing… Read More Self-Care: Learn To Trust Your Gut Again
Studies show that women are more likely than men to experience symptoms of stress. This stress is also more likely to lead women to experience depression and anxiety disorders. This may be because of how we as women process stress hormones. Understanding how and what stress is can go long way in helping you to reduce your… Read More Stress in Women.
It can be quite normal for children to go through an anxious phase from time to time. Examples of this would be moving home, starting in a new school or play group. For some children, however, anxiety can have a bigger impact on their lives. It can affect their behaviour, interfering with school, home and… Read More 10 Tips To Help Parent Your Anxious Child.
A hoarding disorder is where a person collects an excessive amounts of items and stores them usually in their home. They can acquire vast amounts of items which may result in a collection of what has become an unmanageable amount of clutter. The items themselves may be of no monetary value but the person can… Read More What Is Hoarding Disorder?
What Is Happiness? Can we really define what happiness is? Many studies have tried to do just that. Some studies have defined happiness as having life satisfaction, positive and healthy coping resources, plus positive emotions. These studies have shown that happiness can lead to a wide range of beneficial outcomes. These include: financial success, supporting… Read More Dealing With Emotions: Coping With Happiness
What is grief? Grief is our natural response to losing someone or something, the death of a family member or friend, a relationship ends, loss of your job. Other life changes may bring about grief such as chronic illness, disability in you or loved one, even moving home or country. For the first six months, at… Read More Dealing With Emotions: Coping With Grief
Dealing with emotions appropriately can be hard. The key word here is appropriate. What do I mean by this? Well looking at how we feel can be difficult at times in our lives. We can be in denial about so much that is going on in our lives at that moment. We may not even… Read More Learning To Cope With Emotions: Shame & Guilt
Everyone keeps talking about being grateful these days or showing gratitude. But when life is getting you down it can be very hard. Why should I be grateful you may ask? What’s it all about anyway? These are some very good questions. When the word gratitude is thrown about these days it’s as if it’s… Read More How Gratitude Can Boost Your Mental And Physical Health.
Journaling has huge benefits for both mental and physical health. Research has shown it acts not only as a stress management, anxiety and depression support tool but has been shown to benefit asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and other health conditions. It improves cognitive functioning and it strengthens the immune system, preventing a host of illnesses. Plus… Read More Journaling For Mental Health.
Turning off the negative voice in your head is beneficial. If you have been following the series on deleting negative thinking and negative people hopefully by now you have started to get some relief from my suggestions. Your mindfulness or meditation practice should be a basic tool in your self-care arsenal. This is also beneficial… Read More Creating More Positivity In Your Life.
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