I've been coaching for a number of years now and I've met a lot of people who've told me, "I'm an anxious person. I always have been. I probably always
You’ve had a couple of weeks off. You’ve enjoyed a wonderful holiday, you’ve had time to relax, play, laugh and spend quality time with your family or friends.
Your batteries are
It's that time of year again.
We've welcomed in the New Year (and decade!) and it's time to set our New Year resolutions.
We tell ourselves that this year is definitely
When I started coaching some years ago, my goal was to provide stress management coaching to guys.
I was motivated by the fact that in my corporate job I’d been surrounded
"At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become.”
~ Leo Babauta – creator of Zen Habits
Our mind
In the context of stress and anxiety, how do you describe yourself?
Do you tell people (and yourself): “I’ve always been an anxious person;” “I’m a stressed mum/ dad;” “I’m a
Thoughts of something going wrong in the future can cause us to experience anxiety. It’s important to recognise that whatever it is we are imagining to go wrong is just
Anxiety is the name we give to the acute and/or chronic stress we experience in response to a perceived future threat.
Anxiety can be extremely useful when it serves to keep
Trauma is more common than people realise. Over the last eight years I’ve helped dozens of people suffering from trauma - with lives blighted by over-whelming, intrusive memories and panic.
Most
The word 'esteem' comes from a Latin word which means 'to estimate'. Esteem is the worth and value that we apply to people, places, and situations. So, for example, we