Monday 8 October marks the start of Mental Health Awareness Week here in NZ. This year’s theme is: Let nature in, strengthen your wellbeing – Mā te taiao kia whakapakari tōu
In last week's blog I wrote about the difference between normal and problematic worrying and how categorising our worries can help us to deal with it. This week I'm sharing
“Worry is a component of anxiety symptoms.”
~ Luana Marques, PhD
It’s estimated we have between 12,000-80,000 thoughts per day. A large proportion of these thoughts involve us asking ourselves....
"What if?" and
“What could possibly
The 3 keys to regaining control of your stress
To stop stress impacting adversely on our performance, health and enjoyment of life there are three key things we need to do.
Have you heard about the Vagus Nerve?
It’s the most important nerve you perhaps didn’t know you had.
Why is it so important?
Because, the Vagus Nerve (VN ) is intimately tied in
There are four key steps that we need to take in order to regain, and maintain, control over our stress and anxiety:
Reduce our current stress level
Understand how we
Research tells us that writing about our core values is one of the most effective psychological interventions we can engage in.
In the book The Upside Of Stress health psychologist Kelly
When I was staring down the barrel of redundancy for the first time in my career, I experienced anxiety and stress big time. The trigger for my anxiety was a