Watch Annmarie’s 3 steps to take when you’re feeling anxious.
Continue reading “3 steps to take when you’re feeling anxious”Category: Coping with life
It’s bloody horrible at the moment isn’t it?
Over the course of a week or so we’ve gone from a relatively normal existence (albeit with worries about developments in other countries) to total lockdown. And even though we had an inkling that this was coming, the reality has sent many of us into shock. There’s still a part of me when I go to sleep at night that thinks that maybe when I wake up it will all have been a nightmare and we’ll all go back to talking about Brexit. But we know now that it won’t – this thing is here for the long haul and we have to try to learn a way to live in this new reality. So how do we do it?
Continue reading “Coping in the time of Corona”“HAIR IS EVERYTHING”
We all secretly knew this to be true but it took Fleabag for us to know we knew it.
Clearly it’s not the only lesson to take from that programme (the main one being that, if that’s what priests look like these days, we need to start going to church a bit more…) but it really stuck with me, not least cos of my own experiences.
Continue reading ““What the hell have you done to my hair?” and other awkward conversations”So I’ve made it to the first anniversary of starting my own business and I’m chuffed as hell about it.
Continue reading “Happy Birthday To Me!”“How can I learn to become more resilient?”
Clients often ask this in their first therapy session. They tell me that they find it hard to cope with setbacks and they set ‘achieving’ resilience as their ‘goal’ for therapy. It’s one of those buzz words like mindfulness that has been floating around for the past few years and many organisations and businesses have also cottoned on to this trend, offering training on how their staff can become more resilient.
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