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Are negative thoughts affecting your present day living? Negative thinking habits can leave us feeling frustrated, angry, despondent, fearful and ca…

Anxiety, a simple word, seven letters, is such a pervasive condition. Anxiety is in all of our lives and in threatening situations is useful. Yet the…

This simple and brief technique, used regularly, can be an extremely useful exercise to help reduce the physical sensations of anxiety and to encoura…

SAD has become well known as the shorthand for Seasonal Affective Disorder, that cloak of despondency and gloom which can descend as autumn gives way…

‘My body was so tense. It was like a weight pressing down on my chest. It felt difficult to breathe. My brain felt wired to the point I couldn’t thin…

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How can you trust that counselling can help with fears and anxieties, if anxiety around counselling is one of them? When discussing the therapeutic…

“Find a place where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” Joseph Campbell from A Joseph Campbell Companion. Reflections on the Art of Liv…

There is a scene in Woody Allen's film, Hannah and her Sisters, in which Hannah (Mia Farrow) is talking to her sister Holly (Dianne Wiest) about Hann…