What a road trip!! Last weekend, I treated my fiancé to a birthday weekend at a forest retreat, just forty minutes from where we live in Mid-Wales. I liked the fact that it had no mobile signal or wifi, just a cottage surrounded by trees, birds and tranquillity. After half an hour on the main […]
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General anxiety is not a mental illness. You are not weak, abnormal or going out of your mind. Anxiety is a lack of confidence in our own ability to handle our bodily sensations. Our symptoms are real but they’re not due to any physical illness. Our body is simply in ‘Fear Response Mode’ and we
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I don’t remember the first time I felt anxious. I experienced it from such a young age but only realised decades later that it was social anxiety. At the time, I just felt terrified. Often. To family and friends, I was just, “very shy and sensitive”. I’ve spent most of my adult life ‘fighting’ anxiety
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Q. How can Mindfulness help during a pandemic? A. These two simple methods will help keep you calm and effective in whatever circumstance you find yourself. 1. Notice when you have a ‘WHAT IF’ thought. So much of the factual information that we read and see on the news and social media is clouded by
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Today I did my second session with a client who suffers from Anxiety and Panic Disorder and our theme was ‘Thoughts are not facts’. How can what we think be untrue? Surely we are honest with ourselves? Well, firstly we have to notice our thoughts in order to explore this idea and our feelings and
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