I’ve lost count of the TV and film versions of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol I’ve seen over the years. It’s a great story because it illustrates how each of us
Last week I wrote about how to design good habits & eliminate bad ones. This week I’m going to share a proven, evidence based method that helps you to fairly
It’s estimated that 95% of our daily behaviours are the product of habits.
95%!
This means that essentially our habits are running our lives!
Once any behaviour has been repeated enough times,
Christmas is less than a month away. Eek!
For many people the run up to Christmas is exciting, but for others it can be a distressing time.
Are you one of those
Since the 1970s a deluge of research studies, books, documentaries, media and internet articles have conditioned us to believe that stress is bad. Dubbed as the ‘health epidemic of the
In many stress management books and articles we are painted as hapless victims of a pathetically primitive survival system - the Fight or Flight response (aka the stress response).
The argument
Everyone experiences anxiety to some degree - but individuals who suffer from severe anxiety have excessive and unrealistic feelings of dread, apprehension and impending disaster that interfere with their normal
10 October 2018 was World Mental Health Day. This year’s theme is young people and mental health in a changing world and it recognises that children and young adults are
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