Surviving Christmas Someone once said to me, that most people have a miserable time at Christmas. Now while this isn’t true for everyone, to me it h…

What if I told you that one simple mindfulness practice undertaken for as little as five minutes a day could help reduce your stress, elevate your mo…

1. Slow Down Slow your breathing, slow down when you drive, walk, talk, type, read, cook, or anything else you happen to be doing. 2. Breathe Out…

  Our era has been called 'The Age of Anxiety'. With increasing financial stress, family pressures, health problems, global economic turmo…

Stress and Anxiety Many of us suffer from stress and anxiety. Some stress can be useful, to make us achieve and sometimes to keep us safe, but somet…

It’s so hard to describe what deep shame feels like. It feels so painful to even talk about the feelings of shame that words dry up; the body feels h…

Work is where those of us who are lucky enough to have a job spend the majority of our time. Gainful employment offers us a living; self esteem; prid…

As science is helping us understand more about how our brains work, we are discovering how certain anxious and traumatic memories can get trapped in…

Often we hear people talk about ‘keeping a lid on old feelings’, and the fear of ‘taking the lid off the box’. Once out, like all the evils of the wo…

How are you feeling today? Has it been a good or bad day? Whichever you have had, much value can be gleaned from it; if we only had good days we wou…

Sometimes it can be really useful to identify ways that you feel leave you feeling more stuck. You may find that these unhelpful habits appear more f…

Sometimes the most capable people find it the most difficult to recognise that they are depressed, until it imposes itself in a way that can't be ign…