Navigating the Emotional Whirlwind: Understanding the Five Stages of Grief
Navigating grief through give stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. A journey through emotions, healing, and finding new meaning
Depression
8 helpful ways to deal with stress
Do you find you often feel stressed? Are your nights disrupted with poor sleep? Is your mind often thinking about too many things. Then STOP. It sounds as though you are stressed. Below are eight helpful ways of dealing with stress. Active change can help you build a happier life for yourself.
Living with Psoriasis
Living with psoriasis can affect how confident a person feels outside of the home. It can affect both social and work situations. Whilst many people may not notice or comment on the psoriasis, unfortunately some can be rude and say hurtful things, ask personal questions or simply stare. This often leads to people with psoriasis …
Coping with loss and bereavement
Coping with loss and bereavement Every time there is a significant change in our lives, such as loss and bereavement, we experience a range of feelings. It can be a confusing and frightening time. Understanding loss and bereavement can help with the grieving, and to understand what is happening. Coping with loss and bereavement is …
Help, my Mum and Dad are toxic and causing too much pain. How do I let go?
Help, my Mum and Dad are toxic and causing too much pain. How do I let go? Clients often battle over society’s pressure that you must look after their parents versus the fact their Mum and Dad is toxic and malicious and causing them too much pain. The guilt of this keeps them maintaining a …
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New Year… Positive Changes rather than Resolutions
Broken resolutions I’m sure we can all think about New Year’s resolutions that we have made and broken. I know that I can think of some! Making new resolutions is often about changing our bad habits or becoming fitter. For example I often hear New Year resolutions of people stopping smoking or drinking
Relationship between thoughts and feelings
Feelings affect us Positive or negative feelings affect what happen to us. For example, if we are given a birthday present, we feel elated and happy, but if our child breaks our birthday present, we feel angry and upset. In other words, the situation we are in has a direct effect on our feelings. Thoughts …
No shame in depression
No shame in Depression I recently put up on my Facebook page a quote from JK Rowling ‘ I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that’. It was very …
Walk Talk Therapy in Sheffield
A few years ago, I came across a book called ‘Working it out: Using exercise in Psychotherapy’. This book highlights that walking during counselling or therapy: Encourages a client to be more physical active Helps a client get ‘unstuck’ when talking about difficult issues Physical activity increases creative and deeper thinking
Coping with loneliness
We all feel lonely from time to time. Loneliness can happen when you have no contact with people. Coping with loneliness is difficult. If you feel you have little importance or no value in other people’s life. You are excluded from events or you may feel you have little in common with people. However, if …