The rapid changes of the last week are challenging, and we need to actively support our mental health during the lockdown. Both the threat from the virus and the changes in how we live are stressful, so you really have…
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Keeping safe in Lockdown
Posted in Stress Tagged with: mental health and lockdown, mental health coronavirus, psychotherapy in hungerford and Marlborough
Coronavirus and mental health
Below is a link to a BBC article on basic mental health, including protecting yourself from what I would call the ‘stress virus’ associated with the news. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51873799
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Guidance for Psychological Therapists: Enabling conversations with clients taking or withdrawing from prescribed psychiatric drugs
New guidance gives psychological therapists information to help clients struggling with side effects and withdrawal issues which have resulted from an increase in the prescription of psychiatric drugs. While this guidance is aimed at therapists, if you are interested in…
Overcome trauma with yoga
Trauma and distress become lodged in the body, so often it is useful to combine physical movement with a talking therapy to support recovery. Yoga is one way to do this, and in the video below Bessell van der Kolk…
Self-Care
Often I hear self-care described in terms of what we can do. We can balance work with rest and play. We can care for ourselves through nutrition, exercise, socialising and getting support when things are difficult. Acting to manage life…
How the Modern World Makes Us Mentally Ill
This is a video from the School of Life that points to some of the challenges modern life hands us. Whether you agree with what it says or not, it’s worth looking at to get you thinking about your lifestyle…
Stress, fatigue and burnout
Modern life can often be stressful. If it is stressful over a long period it can lead to fatigue, burnout, health and relationship problems. Without proper self-care, rest, relaxation and time, even the most resilient of us will reach a…
Posted in anxiety, Career, Confidence, depressed, Health, Stress Tagged with: anxiety, burnout, coaching, counselling hungerford, counselling in marlborough, counselling in swindon, counsellor Marlborough, depression, fatigue, life coaching, self care, stress, stress hungerford, stress marlborough, stress swindon
Thinking about killing myself
Suicidal thoughts don’t have to be acted on – they are common and you can get past them. In this article I provide a different perspective on these thoughts and urges. If you are thinking about killing yourself today the call the Samaritans on 116 123.
Letting Life Flow Through You
Posted in Crisis & Loss, depressed, Stress Tagged with: counselling, counselling hungerford, counselling marlborough, counselling swindon, counsellor, crisis, depression, disappointment, grief, loss, trauma, vulnerability
Ash Wednesday
Part of ‘Ash Wednesday’ by T.S. Eliot, that I find useful during meditation: “I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be…
Posted in Meditation, Purpose, Meaning, Spirituality, Stress Tagged with: Ash Wednesday, attachment, meditation, purpose, spirituality, TS Eliot, waiting
