Feb 7, 2019 | choice, coaching, mental health, Motivation, support
A fabulous client who has achieved so, so much since starting my coaching programme and is looking forward to a future filled with happiness since the black cloud has disappeared. She kindly sent me this card and flowers, which has really made my day. But more...
Feb 6, 2019 | anxiety, children, coaching, Depression, Emotions, mental health
Someone recently asked me if my son’s anxiety was a result of my depression, or if my depression was a result of his anxiety. Although he was born with anxiety caused by a stressful pregnancy and birth along with a stressed mum, my depression had started 6 years...
Jan 31, 2019 | anxiety, choice, coaching, Depression, mental health
Talking about Anxiety – the feelings, the emotions, how it makes us behave and the actions it controls – is a huge step towards understanding, and challenging the power of Anxiety. So lets talk about it – when the time is right, reflection is good for...
Jan 25, 2019 | anxiety, coaching, Depression, mental health, support
After another discussion with someone relaying the words “I don’t have mental health” I wanted to share my view on what mental health means to me. I have come to understand more about what mental health actually is in the most recent years, and have unlearned...
Jan 17, 2019 | anxiety, children, fear, mental health, support
When considering a child’s mental health and behaviours, we often dismiss anxiety in confident children – children who play sports, children who can talk in class, happy children, children who have a laugh and a joke. Creative children and children who come...
Jan 10, 2019 | anxiety, children, mental health, support
Understanding anxiety is difficult when you live with it but watching someone living with it is even more perplexing. You don’t recognise the dangers that cause the intense fear and extreme behaviours. You can’t feel the quickening pace of the heart, short...
Dec 15, 2018 | anxiety, Bullying, children, Emotions, mental health, support
Suicide and how adults and children get to feel it is the only option are on my mind constantly. My children are excited and looking forward to Christmas but spare a thought to children struggling with anxiety, depression or bullying. Where excitement becomes an...
Dec 5, 2018 | anxiety, mental health
The holiday season can be a stressful time for anyone and with all the forced cheer and merriment presented on social media the pressure to be ‘happy’ can have us questioning why we don’t feel it. We must take time to remember a post or picture on...
Sep 26, 2018 | anxiety, fear, mental health, support
Anxiety makes our bodies and minds do, see and think things that may or may not be true. Your body takes on a life of it’s own. Your mind goes off stomping through the worst case scenarios grasping at each one, building the fear and anxiety as it goes. Although it...
Sep 12, 2018 | anxiety, coaching, mental health, support
I see the impact the stigma around mental health has on people every day. Time for mental health to be understood and accepted as physical health is. Being mentally unwell is such a struggle anyway, you feel like a failure, you can’t cope with life, you struggle...
