Reduce stress in 30 days! By making just one or two simple changes, you really can dramatically reduce your stress levels! There are easy, quick wins which will help to lower stress and anxiety and will get you well on the way to feeling like you can take on...
There are some great resources available to help you manage stress and anxiety. Check out these ones and let us know what you think! Link to MindTools.com
Just breathe? Really? It sounds way too simple but one of the quickest and most effective ways to stabilise ourselves when we are hit with an amygdala response in a situation is to get control of our breathing. When we get triggered or activated by someone or by a...
Help! I'm a New Parent! Having a new baby and becoming a new parent brings profound changes and enormous challenges. Although there are moments of deep joy when a baby arrives many parents at some point find themselves exhausted, stressed, anxious or overwhelmed....
All loss is incredibly significant. Whether it’s the loss we experience from the death of someone we love, or the loss of a job, a relationship, our health we feel the significance and sometimes the weight of those. In our ‘stiff upper lip’ way, we often belittle the...
Trauma For those of us who have lived through a series of traumatic experiences, particularly in childhood, memories relating to them are stored in a different way to the ‘normal’ memories we have as adults about what happened yesterday or last week etc. Most...
What do you do with your grief when loss happens?So, Big Boys Don't Cry? In Scotland and probably, more generally, even just in the West, culturally, we learn to have a ‘stiff upper lip’. Often, as children, we were encouraged not to cry or told to ‘dry your tears’...
Just a Bad Day? When you’re having a bad day, it’s easy to worry that you are becoming depressed but there is a difference between feeling sad in the midst of challenging circumstances and developing depression.Sadness is a natural and appropriate reaction to certain...
Sometimes, it helps to have a framework to explain what’s happening in your internal world. Internal Family Systems is one way to make sense of our emotional world. The people at the IFS institute have lots of useful resources to help with understanding.Link to...
