Starting and running a business is always a stressful endeavor; introduce a global pandemic into the mix and the load gets even heavier. When you’re trying to grow your business and become part of the community, it can be hard to remember to reduce your stress load and slow down. It’s important to take that time; you can’t do your …
Coping with depression
Coping with depression Depression can really be a very lonely place to be. It can make us feel unmotivated, lose interest in things that we used to enjoy and struggle to cope with day to day tasks. Sometimes the very thoughts of doing things we once found to be the simplest of tasks can leave us feeling overwhelmed. People who …
Anxiety – suggestions for changing negative thinking patterns
Change your thoughts, change your world. Having done a previous post on Anxiety I would like to focus on one aspect of anxiety in this post which is our thought patterns and how they can feed into our anxiety. Many people I have met would consider themselves to be worriers, having racing thoughts, playing conversations or situations over and over …
Three tips for coping with anxiety
Three tips for coping with anxiety and why they might help. Panic, fear, nervousness, sleeping problems and heart palpitations are just some of the many dreaded symptoms of anxiety. Most of the time people don’t realise that what they are feeling are the symptoms of anxiety and it knows no bounds in its reach, many of us are susceptible to …
Six tips for dealing with your inner critic
Six tips for dealing with your inner critic “I’m not good enough” “I’m so stupid.” “I never do anything right” “What’s wrong with me?” Does this sound familiar? These are some common critical inner voices. Sometimes our inner critic holds us back. We all have that little inner voice that disproves or judges our actions and abilities. Our inner critic …
Tips for coping with anxiety (part 2)
Three tips for coping with anxiety and why they might help. Panic, fear, nervousness, sleeping problems and heart palpitations are just some of the many dreaded symptoms of anxiety. Most of the time people don’t realise that what they are feeling are the symptoms of anxiety and it knows no bounds in its reach, many of us are susceptible to …
How to deal with Anxiety
It hurts to see you suffering!!! When a loved one suffers from anxiety it can be really difficult for those around them to know what they can do to help to provide support. This can leave us asking ourselves questions like what can I do or say? How should I act? This can be a really confusing, frighten and frustrating …
Dealing with depression
And from the darkest depths I shall emerge … Having feelings of sadness, emptiness or hopelessness? Having suffered with depression myself I can say it is a truly dark and lonely place to be. We can be left feeling like no one can understand us or what we are going through. We can also feel like these feelings will never …
Five tips on coping with Anxiety
Five tips on coping with Anxiety How do people know if what they are experiencing is anxiety? Some signs are having trouble getting off to sleep at night because of racing thoughts or avoiding social situations because they make their heart race and the palms of their hands sweat. Many of us can feel overcome with complete dread at the …