Anxiety can display in the form of minor avoidance of a certain activity but might also escalate into full-on terror at the mere thought of something. It takes different shapes and forms with fear at its source. It can be really triggering for us to [...]
The human emotional system is shaped by an evolutionary history we share with our fellow mammals. The psychologist Paul Gilbert has shown how we share three key emotional systems: 'Threat', 'Calm' and 'Drive'. Mammals have evolved to move between these three systems depending on the [...]
Engaging with nature benefits human health and wellbeing. Fact. Walking in nature, gardening, sitting on a park bench and even watching nature through a window have all been shown to be beneficial. Engaging with nature can help reduce stress and anxiety, improve cognitive functioning, build [...]
Our January 'online help' feature comes from Surrey Police and Action for Carers. This is such a useful insight into the teen world and it offers parents and carers many useful things to be aware of. ________________ Communicating with the young people in our lives [...]
What you do to your mind, you do to your body and vice versa. Sometimes we tend to act as if we are a head floating above our body, totally disconnected, but the way we feel physically can affect our mood massively, and our mood [...]
When is a problem bad enough to need therapy? We all have issues, things about us that we might want to change, things that we feel out of control of, behaviours we don’t like. However, this is normal and maybe it doesn’t need therapy – [...]
Do you wake up on the morning of exams with your tummy full of butterflies and feeling like skipping breakfast? Don’t worry, it is very common to lose your appetite when you are doing exams. Photo by Elisa Ventur on Unsplash When you [...]
Did you know that we have happy hormones? They are produced under certain circumstances when we do or experience certain things. We can increase their levels in our body deliberately if we focus on doing the right things. Happiness doesn't come from the world around [...]
So here we go – exam time. Schools are ramping up the pressure and our teenagers are feeling the weight of expectation upon them. Photo by Je Shoots, Unsplash Whether it's GCSEs, AS levels or A levels, our kids are under enormous strain. [...]
You often hear ‘I’m a worrier’ or ‘my mum and my grandmother had panic attacks, it runs in the family’ as if anxiety was written into their DNA – inherited. As far as I am aware, no baby is born anxious. Photo by Joice [...]
