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What you need to know about your stress response
Our stress response mechanisms have not yet evolved to match what we perceive as a threat today. This article summarises what happens in your body and how to manage your emotional state better. Your body is brilliant at handling a crisis. It has an amazing ability to adapt and mobilise all resources in an emergency.
Why are Coaching and Psychotherapy useful?
Having had personal experience of therapy and having gained so much insight from it, I decided to become a professional therapist and help others navigate their inner landscapes. With a growing amount of buzz around the words ‘mental health’, ‘wellbeing’ and ‘self-development’, people often ask me if going to therapy and having a life coach
How can creativity and physical activity help you heal from grief
When we lose a loved one we go through tremendous amounts of emotional upheavals and our sense of balance is severely compromised. Finding ways that can help us cope with the sense of loss and grief can be what turns a terrible day into an ‘OK’ one. I experienced many bereavements while growing up. I
Coping with bereavement
Bereavement affects people in different ways, there isn’t a right or a wrong way to feel, there aren’t any rules to follow. Powerful feelings will hit you out of the blue, you think you’re coping and the next minute you’re in tears, unable to think straight and just wanting to hide away. There are many
Supporting a loved one through loss
Knowing what to say when someone you love loses someone they love can be incredibly hard. You want to say something profound and soothing, but all that comes out is, ‘I’m so sorry’. The truth is, there isn’t really anything that you CAN say that will make that much of a difference. What your
Building your resilience
Waking up to taking care of your health I always tell my clients that they only have one health and they should look after it and not take it for granted. Taking care of our mental and physical health and wellbeing takes time and effort. Often, it is only after receiving some kind of health-related
The A, B, C to positive physical and mental health
It is a well-known fact that physical activity is connected to mental wellbeing. From the ancient Roman times, the motto mens sana in corpore sano, meaning “a healthy mind in a healthy body”, has been used to express how physical exercise is an important part of mental well-being. Research shows that if you have good physical
Use of physical activity in the prevention of mental health problems
Research shows that doing regular physical activity 5 times a week can help you maintain positive mental health and prevent you from developing mental health problems. In this blog post we explore how being physically active helps your wellbeing. Exercise reduces levels of the body’s stress hormones, such as adrenaline and cortisol. It also stimulates
Abs workout #2
This abdominal workout promises to get your core strong and abs burning! Perform each exercise as directed on the video. Beginners: Complete x3 set with 30 seconds rest between sets Intermediates: Complete x4 sets with 25 seconds rest between sets Advanced: Complete x5 sets with 20 seconds rest between sets Try not rest between exercises.