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Navigating Year-End Stress: Strategies for Corporate Workers
The pressure to meet year-end targets, finish projects, and manage personal and professional obligations can become overwhelming. Let’s chunk down 3 key tips for effectively managing end of year stress.
5-Minute Tools for Relief from Anxiety and Stress
Here’s 3 quick and simple tools you can use everyday to find relief from anxiety, stress and overwhelm. Bonus: link to guided video practices.
Apps Therapists Recommend
I’m excited to share this blog post I contributed to, by Jodie Gale from The Psychosynthesis Centre.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in a nutshell
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (or ACT) is one of the new behaviour therapies that has evolved from Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT).
Values - what are they and how can they support wellbeing?
Your values are like a compass, guiding how you want to behave and act towards yourself, others and the world around you.
3 simple breathing practices to help you get to sleep (and stay asleep)
Learn 3 sleep-supporting breath practices to help you wind down, fall asleep, and stay asleep, including abdominal breathing and Progressive Muscle Relaxation.
6 Tips for a Good Night's Sleep
If you find it hard to wind down to sleep or to stay asleep, these 6 tips can support you to have a more restful night’s sleep.
Surviving vs Thriving
Many clients come to me in survival mode, needing support to begin to regain daily functioning.
Feeling anxious, or experiencing stress?
Here’s a simple practice you can use to ease anxiety and relax physical tension, caused by stress, in the body.
Slow Dance
A poem, to remind us of the power of engagement in life… of noticing, of being curious.. being in the present and enjoying each moment.
Dropping Anchor
It is a skill to support you to make contact with the present moment, open up to the thoughts and feelings you’re experiencing, while choosing to consciously engage in the activity, or situation at hand.
Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) for Sleep
A guided Progressive Muscle Relaxation practice for better sleep…..
Box Breathing: for calm and concentration
This breath practice is often attributed to the US Navy SEALS who utilise it in developing focus and staying calm under stress
Stop before you start by Taking 5
One of my favourite practices to share with corporate and counselling clients alike is a simple practice
Gratitude - it's a Super Power
Stop to smell the roses…. with gratitude… more than a cliche..