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Stress Management

Stress management is absolutely vital in today’s society to keep your relationships, your career and your health in a state of good well being. Dealing with mental and physical stress is a necessary part of being human. Our bodies were made to handles certain amounts of stress on a regular basis. However, it is how […]

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Work Related Stress

This is a wonderful article one of my clients wrote, for her fellow stressed colleagues after working with myself for one session. Stress ‘Stress? Stress? I don’t have time to be stressed. Other people might have time, but I don’t. I’ve got to work, cook, clean, do the school run, do extra hours, make packed […]

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Fight or Flight Responce to Stress

The fight-or-flight response, also known as the acute stress response, refers to a physiological reaction that occurs in the presence of something that is terrifying, either mentally or physically. The fight-or-flight response was first described in the 1920s by American physiologist Walter Cannon. Cannon realised that a chain of rapidly occurring reactions inside the body […]

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Life Coach

I am a personal life coach. You know how people have that gap between where they are and where they want to be? Well I work with them on filling that gap and creating the life they really want. People who want to move their life forward. “Where your heart is there your treasure is […]

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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

If you are looking for a good tool to help you with your thought processing often as a result of feelings of anxiety and stress. The Thought Diary Pro is a great app designed to be the second step in changing our thinking patterns by helping individuals identify the thinking errors that they engage in, […]

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Mental Health is an illness

I read this article in the Guardian and had to reiterate how true and sad this article is, I have experienced this with many of my clients and counselling has been liffe changing for them. Article in the Guardian: ‘Faith gave my family comfort over my depression, but I needed medical help’ “We need to […]

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Confidence

When you feel you are being criticised stay in your adult: The adult is the part of your personality which can be rational and objective. Judge wether criticism being given is: a) Being given by someone whose opinion you value and b) Whether it is fair and constructive. Use your adult to remind you that […]

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Mid Life Crisis

Is there such a thing as a mid life crisis, NO there is not. What this is is basically your body closing you down in way shape or form as you are not listening to it. We abuse our bodies all of the time with alcohol, lack of nutrients, lack of exercise, lack of sleep, […]

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Self Care

What is self care? Most of us are not taught self care at school or by our parents we are taught more about how to take care of others. Well as we grow into adulthood we need to be able to take care of ourselves. If we are unable to nurture ourselves then we are […]

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Work Place Stress

Research has proven that 70% of employees that access counselling whilst off sick return to work after a very short period of time . Many employers offer employees this service Employee Assisted Programmes, which entitle their staff to a fixed amount of counselling sessions usually up to 8, to enable them to look at the […]