Fear is a basic emotion and the human response to it is necessary for survival. Everybody understands fear and what it feels like to be afraid. But what happens when your nervous system becomes so dysregulated that you become scared of feeling fear? How can you tackle...
Stress is a word that is bandied about quite often, but what is stress? Becoming more aware of what stress is and understanding what to do to reduce it will improve your wellbeing. April 2022 is stress awareness month, so let’s explore what stress is, what to do when...
Effective therapy can help you to deal with past issues and gain new perspectives on current problems. All human beings have a set of four physical needs and nine emotional needs. It is by meeting our physical and emotional needs that we survive and develop as...
Many people use anxiety tools to keep calm and control anxious feelings. You probably have tools and techniques you use, but you might find they don’t work as well as they did. I wanted to explain the main reasons why this is and how you can make them more effective....
Traumatic experiences are not something that you can compare. What’s traumatic for one person won’t be the same for another, but they always have the same elements in common. Here we look at what constitutes a traumatic experience and why it’s not possible to compare...
Seventeen year old art student Mia has been struggling with anorexia nervosa for around 5 years. In actual fact, although formally identified 5 years ago, she now realises that the problem started much earlier on. It would seem that even as young as 5 she was using...