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April 8, 20220Comments

Are you a stressed accountant?

Did you say ‘Yes, I'm a stressed accountant!'? You’re not alone. Accountants are reporting huge amounts of stress and emotional overload right now. A recent study led by the UK’s Chartered Accountants

March 17, 20220Comments

Which stress response is your default?

Our three stress responses How our innate Survival Operating System (SOS) interprets a situation determines the response the system activates. The three responses are: Challenge ResponseSurvival ResponseTend and Befriend Response Each response: is our body’s

February 25, 20220Comments

A powerful meditation to reduce anxiety

I learned this breath focused meditation technique from the book The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal. Kelly also wrote the book The Upside of Stress which I recommend you read

February 20, 20220Comments

Interrupting Stress

What is stress? During our lives we cannot avoid being faced with real and present dangers to our physical and/or emotional wellbeing. These dangers can be one off events (for instance a car

February 8, 20220Comments

Use your breath to achieve lower anxiety

Breathing can lower emotional arousal Use your breath as a natural, simple and effective way to control your anxiety level. Deep breathing techniques produce a bodily response that lowers your feeling

January 11, 20220Comments

Stop labeling anxiety as ‘negative’ or bad’

“If you constantly tell yourself that your anxiety is “negative” or “bad,” is it any surprise that your urge to avoid it gets stronger and stronger, and as a result,

December 14, 20210Comments

Anxious? What kind of scary mental movies are you running?

Whenever we project ourselves into our future and imagine something bad happening to us, or to those we care about, what we’re actually doing is creating a mental movie. What

September 10, 20210Comments

One way to limit the number of things you worry about

Worry Worry serves an important function in our lives. Without some amount of worry, we wouldn’t stop to consider risks to our wellbeing. Do you spend too much time worrying? Like most things

September 3, 20210Comments

What if … a question could reduce your anxiety?

Did you know that asking yourself a particular type of question can dramatically reduce the amount of anxiety you feel? The questions are called Empowering Questions. In this post I’ll explain why

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