Reminder it’s ok to not be ok. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, anxious or just a bit low right now that’s ok. It’s unsettling times. Here are 3 quick ways to create a ‘circuit break’ for your mind and put you back in control of your thinking. 🖐 5 fingered breathing. Kids and adults love this…
Here’s a short summary from this insightful – interview on practical habits to increase happiness Sonja Lyubomirsky is an American professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and author of the bestseller The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want, a book of strategies backed…
Self-care is about recharging yourself physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. We only have a finite amount of energy and once we run beyond our limits there are serious consequences and yet we’re very bad at setting boundaries and protecting our precious energy reserves. The simple analogy of the ‘self-care battery’ can really help to simplify…
I read an article this week called ‘Speech Anxiety: Use “Grounding” to Look and Feel More Confident’ on tips for speaking in public with strength and confidence. I was fascinated by the parallels with the ABCs of Pilates – alignment, breathing and centering. The emphasis of the article was on body language, grounding, posture and…
This weekend I listened to Dr Chatterjee’s podcast (Feel better, Live more), he was interviewing Dr Tara Swart a neuroscientist and psychologist who was talking about coping with emotions. She mentioned almost in passing that whenever she needs to make a big decision she places her hand on her head to ask her head for…