How Being Vulnerable Allows You To Thrive Again (It’s Not What You Think)
Learning to be vulnerable again can help you to overcome loneliness, depression, anxiety and avoid emotional burnout. Expressing ourselves a
How early trauma affects the gut and your physical health
Virtually every client I see in my practice who has experienced emotional or physical trauma, and in particular early trauma, is affected via their nervous system with symptoms such as insomnia, chronic tension, depressive or highly anxious disposition, nightmares or chronic shame.
However, many clients I see also have a range of physical issues as a result of trauma. More so, when there is complex trauma involved. Complex trauma can often fly under the radar, as clients mi
How to create a more fulfilling life while you sleep
During sleep you can heal yourself, resolve personal challenges and issues, and find better, more creative solutions to real life problems
How to transform Fear and Self Doubt into Peace and Happiness
How can we be happy and peaceful despite our "Negativity Bias"? Our mind by nature has a “negativity bias” stemming from our evolutionary past. Researchers have estimated that as much as 80% of our thoughts are negative. And despite this, as human beings we have an amazing capacity to work with ourselves and our minds, and to form positive mental habits with just a little effort. Every day we have countless opportunities to change our frequency. We can shift from a fearful st
How to stop catastrophising
Our anxious emotions are often caused by our own distorted ways of thinking. Thinking habits, like worrying or catastrophising lead to anxie
What are the tell-tale signs of burnout - Part 1
There are clear indicators for burnout, which include physical and mental symptoms, such as insomnia, fatigue, depression, an increased vuln
3 Signs You Could Be Anxious Without Knowing It
We all know that there's stigma around anxiety. Nobody wants to say, "I’m an anxious person" or "I’m experiencing anxiety." Although many health conscious people look after their bodies, not everyone knows how to look after their mind. If you’d told me 20 years ago I was anxious, I would have laughed it off and probably told you, that you were hallucinating. In my mind, anxiety was associated with the image of a person unable to face the world or achieve anything, chewing the
What is Burnout?
Burnout is a state of physical and emotional exhaustion. It can be a result of experiencing long-term stress in your job, such as overwork, or of having worked in a physically or emotionally draining role for a long time. It can also occur when your efforts at work have failed to produce the results that you expected, and you feel deeply disillusioned as a consequence. Burnout can also occur in relationships. This article deals with job burnout. Symptoms of Burnout You might
Are you hypervigilant?
With hypervigilance we describe an enhanced state of sensory sensitivity, or hypersensitivity, usually complemented by an exaggerated intensity of behaviours whose purpose is to detect threats. Hypervigilance creates a state of increased anxiety which can cause exhaustion or depression over time. Symptoms of hypervigilance may include: abnormally increased arousal (often the result of trauma, or even ruptured attachment relationships in early childhood or abuse). This results
Can you live bravely?
Almost every week I speak to someone about their social anxiety.
Anxiety being another word for fear. People with a social anxiety persistently experience fears about being judged, criticised, ridiculed or humiliated. Yes, who doesn't on occasion ? Perhaps you have heard of the negativity bias of the human mind. But when it becomes a problem, it is a problem.
Confidence on the other hand, is the ability to know that what we fear isn't something that's really happening.
