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It might be off the front pages, but the pain of sexual trauma does not go away.
"Helping you gain control over the things you want to change"ANXIETY & STRESS TRAUMA & PTSD LACK OF CONFIDENCE WOMEN'S HEALTH POST NATAL PTSD It might be off the front pages, but the pain of sexual trauma does not go away. Posted on 19 January 2021 I was looking back...
All This And Christmas Too!
This year, this strange 2020 year unlike no other in our lifetimes, I will not be blogging about Christmas anxiety. Well, that is not quite true, I am going to be talking about anxiety but in a very different context.
Masks, Cognitive Dissonance & Keeping Calm In A Crisis
"Helping you gain control over the things you want to change"ANXIETY & STRESS TRAUMA & PTSD LACK OF CONFIDENCE WOMEN'S HEALTH POST NATAL PTSD Masks, Cognitive Dissonance & Keeping Calm Posted on 20 Nov 2020 A friend of mine, who lives in a European country, phoned...
How We Can Cope As Winter Approaches In The Middle Of A Global Coronavirus Pandemic
I posted a message on my Facebook page recently. I said: “Things do not feel good at the moment. We will all need all our resilience and a lot of strength to get through the next period. I think this can be done and it may even teach us some useful life lessons. More this week on how we stay well and happy and we go into a tough winter.”
Guarding our mental health in the time of Coronavirus
We are moving into a new phase as the coronavirus pandemic unfolds. We are still in a fast-moving story and none of us knows what the autumn and winter will bring. We have all got used to living with uncertainty and coping with rapid, and often unwanted change. For many of us isolation and loneliness have been tough. For others being cooped up with the family has put great strains on our closest and most precious relationships.
Why the end of Coronavirus lockdown is causing anxiety and depression
There will be a lot of change and challenge over the next months. If you are finding it hard to adapt please contact a cognitive practitioner such as myself. We can help you reset your mental map in these changing times to something which will help guide and support you through the world. It can be done and often it is not too difficult. It will help you navigate the unknown future.
How understanding your personality type can make life happier, healthier and more fun
Are you an INTJ or an ESTP? Do not worry if you do not know what I am talking about, all will become clear. It is all about personality types and how understanding our own type and that of those around us can make our lives easier, happier and more fulfilled.
Coronavirus: as the lockdown eases anxiety can increase
In this long and strange tale of the Coronavirus, things are starting to ease up just a little bit. We are entering a new phase. The weather is getting better and there is a hint of summer in the air. Children are going back to school and offices are beginning to open up again. You might think that in a time like this, therapists would be having a much quieter time. Shouldn’t this relatively good news be bringing happiness and a sense of that things are improving at last?
Introvert or extrovert?
‘Don’t tell anyone, but there are some things I quite like about lockdown,’ If I had a pound for every client who has said this to me recently, I would have lots of money but not much to spend it on at the moment. But joking aside, comments like this reveal something very important about how different personality types cope differently when social life is constrained.
If you are still affected by the Harvey Weinstein trial you are not alone
I notice something very interesting with the clients I see for sexual abuse and trauma. Although the Weinstein trial has finished and justice seems to have been done, a number of my clients are finding it difficult to put behind them. One said to me the other day, “Everyone else is obsessed with corona virus and I still keep thinking about Harvey Weinstein. What is wrong with me?”