It’s Winter time: the perfect opportunity to stay inside, settle in by the heater, and get stuck into a good book. It can be such a relaxing and pleasurable activity, but inside your brain there is in fact a…
We can all remember events in our lives that made us feel so anxious we wanted to crawl into a hole and never come out. What we remember most about these is the overall awful feeling that we felt all…
In our Western society, we are so often encouraged to believe that our success is defined by our ability to fit into a fiercely false, unhealthy and superficial mold of idealized perfection. It is no wonder so many of us…
The teenage years. They’re inevitable. Gone are the days when your child was a tiny bundle who you could dress, play with, cuddle and coo with, and take wherever you needed to go. Now they’ve shot up like a beanpole,…
Winter is such a beautiful time of the year With the autumn leaves changing colour and falling, days getting shorter, our gardens getting greener, and with the cooler weather, a change in our eating and drinking patterns can also emerge.…
With many of my clients coming upon mid-year university exams in a matter of weeks, I thought now would be timely to reflect upon the way stress can play out during exam time for school and university students, as well…
A common question that parents encounter is, should I be worried about my teenager’s sad thoughts? Any parent knows that teenagers can have all kinds of unique, interesting, strange and sometimes very sad thoughts. Sadness versus Depression Firstly, it is…
Emotions. Much of the time they seem so hard to keep in check, even as adults. Either we’re told we’re oversensitive and feeling too much, or we’re bottling them up and not feeling enough! An incredibly complex balance. So, how…
“Seriously, how are you meant to juggle it all?” This post the other day on Facebook by a friend of mine made me stop to reflect……it seems we are all searching for solutions to this ongoing challenge. The elusive work/life…
Last week I highlighted what emotional eating is, how it can be a very normal process, but also what to look out for if you have concerns with your eating habits and patterns and suspect they could be symptomatic of deeper…
