Let me preference this with a story. My cat reminded me the other day of why I needed to do a spring clean of my office. To celebrate international wildlife day she presented me, and my office, with her first capture of spring, a live mouse. This isn’t unusually for anyone who has cats. Come… Read More Why A “Spring Clean” Can Help Your Mental Health.
No one can function on less than 6 hours sleep. That is a very well researched fact. Thousands of studies have been conducted over the last few decades into how much sleep we need and what happens if you don’t get enough sleep. If you want to get up at 5am every morning then you… Read More Why Getting Up At 5am Might Not Be Good For You.
What Happens When We Start A Relationship? In the early day we start to get to know one another we want to share and do everything together. We are creating a foundation to the relationship for our future together. This is the merge stage of a relationship. The merge is where we have that initial… Read More Reconnecting With Myself In A Relationship.
Why do we need, at the very least, a very basic self-care routine when busy? The answer is simple, because it will bring stability to our mental and physical health. It will help you re-center when everything else goes astray in your life. If we can bring it all back to basics on our bad days, we… Read More 7 Quick Wins With Self-Care When You Are Busy.
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?
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