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Living with anxiety can be challenging, especially when faced with triggers that exacerbate symptoms and heighten stress levels. Anxiety triggers vary from person to person, as each individual has unique experiences and sensitivities. In this blog post, we will explore common anxiety triggers and provide practical strategies to help you navigate and manage them effectively. Remember, overcoming anxiety is a journey, and with the right tools, you can regain control of your

Living with anxiety can make social interactions challenging. Whether it's attending social events, meeting new people, or simply engaging in conversations, anxiety can make these situations overwhelming. However, with the right coping strategies, it's possible to manage anxiety and find ways to navigate social interactions more comfortably. In this therapy blog, we will explore practical tips and techniques to help you cope with anxiety when mixing with others. Understand a

How to Stop Anxiety from Destroying Relationships There is lots of information out there about how anxiety impacts our health—mentally, emotionally, and physically. Anxiety can cause panic attacks, feelings of fear or feeling totally out of control and overwhelmed, and a general sense of unease and tension. It can take over your thoughts and cause problems in other areas of your life. But have you ever considered how anxiety can destroy relationships with those closest to yo

How many times has this happened to you? Your day starts out organised and well planned, for it to change completely by an event, or person that you hadn’t factored in, thus sending you into panic and stress? Or you have written out a schedule for yourself which in reality there just aren’t enough hours in the day for you to complete? Sound familiar? Most of us don’t have the time or take the time to evaluate which of our daily tasks is truly valuable to us and which we can d

Let’s stop making mindfulness something that it isn’t. It’s not a magic button that you push in your mind and all your problems dissolve! It’s not the great cure-all! Mindfulness is something we all have within ourselves, it’s just whether we choose to use it. Simply put, mindfulness is a way of being aware of what’s going on around you and learning to not be judgemental of yourself, situations or people. It is the opposite of being distracted, yet you can be mindful of bein

Your week at work is incredibly busy, and we all know what that can feel like, it can lead to your stress level going through the roof! We may start the day with a list of tasks we need to do and end the day not having finished that list which can lead to worry anxiety and stress. Some research shows most people spend about 47% of their time thinking about something other than what is right in front of them. This amount of distraction can result in decreased focus and higher

We have talked about how to use Mindfulness to help you be aware of others, now lets talk ab how it can help you, and some simple techniques you can use to help you become more aware of your feelings, emotions, and thoughts and how to deal with them if they become overwhelming or upsetting. Believe it or not, you can use mindfulness when you are eating. Try and pay more attention to taste, texture, flavours. When you are preparing your food, even if it's a sandwich, notice wh

It’s Monday morning, you are running late and it’s taking the kids forever to get ready and get into the car. In your hurry to leave you knock over a cup filled with coffee, and your little girl is asking you for money as they have a thing at school. Traffic is bumper too bumper and there is an argument going on in the back seat. Does this all sound only too familiar? Not a great way to start your day or your week and enough to put your stress levels through the roof. This

It can be easy to rush through life without paying attention to what is going on around us. If we took the time to pay more attention to the present moment – to our own thoughts and feelings, and to the world around us, it can improve our mental health. We call this self-awareness “ mindfulness “. It can help us enjoy life and have a better understanding of ourselves. So what is mindfulness? It means knowing what is going on both inside and outside ourselves moment by momen

First of all, what is a panic attack? It’s an overwhelming feeling of anxiety that comes out of nowhere, with no warning, and quite often for no reason. It feels like a wave taking over your body and can cause some or all of the symptoms we will talk about in a minute. It can be very frightening and unpleasant and can cause some pretty scary effects to your body, even feeling like you are going to die or suffocate! So what are some of the symptoms of a panic attack? Your hear

Prenatal Anxiety Thinking back to my days when I was pregnant, I remember being struck by the reams of information readily available about postnatal depression and anxiety. I vividly recall how well it had been stamped across the NHS clinic hallways when I used to go for my pregnancy check-ups. The posters usually followed the similar motifs of black and white dramatic photographs; featuring a silhouette of a woman staring vacantly through a rain-washed window. The ‘warning