Imagine being so riddled with anxiety, you are too scared to leave your house? Imagine having multiple panic attacks a day. Imagine a life where anxiety has taken over and you can’t imagine a life without it? This was Emily, a client I worked with. Three months later, she is completely FREE of all anxiety! […]
Author: Janine Mitchell
Easy Practical Strategies to Manage Stressful Thoughts
Stressful thoughts! How does stress affect you? Would you like to learn some easy, practical strategies to reduce stress? We all have them. Imagine if you could do something to reduce that stress thought pattern and take charge instead? Well here’s how! First of all, where does stress come from and how does it affect […]
I Feel Happier Than I’ve Ever Felt – A Clients Journey
Get ready for a deep dive as I take you on an incredible journey. I’m excited to share this with you. The most inspiring piece of writing, from a wonderful client I worked with who was struggling with anxiety and confidence. Here is Ben’s story I’d been putting off asking for help and convincing myself […]
How to Eliminate Stress at Work
According to statistics released by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), there were 602,000 cases of work related stress depression or anxiety between 2018 and 2019, resulting in 12.8 million working days being lost. The added pressures of the pandemic and its consequences caused these numbers to soar. In 2019/20 work-related stress, anxiety or depression […]
Workplace Stress and What Managers Can do to Help
Stress massively takes its toll in a multitude of areas in our lives. In the UK alone, 70% of visits to GP’s is for stress related illness. Work related stress is a huge contributory factor and many workers feel so overwhelmed or stressed out in their work, it negatively impacts on poor sleep, ill health, […]
The Physical Signs of Mental Health
When we struggle with our mental wellbeing, it can affect us in numerous ways. It can negatively impact our physiology and can cause a number of physical symptoms. Why is this the case? When we react to a situation either in the short term or over a period of time which causes stress or anxiety, […]
Mental Health Awareness and Why it’s Important
Although it’s important to raise awareness for mental health with awareness days and weeks, mental health should be talked about openly all of the time. Even though this is happening more and more, there still remains a stigma. However there shouldn’t be. Why shouldn’t it be okay to admit you are struggling with your mental […]
Basics of tapping
What is tapping and how does it work? Tapping is best likened to acupuncture without the needles. It is an ancient Chinese acupressure therapy, combined with a modern talking psychology. Tapping, otherwise know as Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) involves gently tapping on certain meridian points, known as acupressure around the face and upper body, while […]
Corporate wellness: Meet Sammy Rubin CEO of YuLife
Sammy Rubin is the co-founder of the life insurance company yulife, a start-up that strives to offer effective life cover and improve the health and overall wellbeing of its users. Wellbeing strategy is at the heart of the ethos and culture of yulife. Sammy started his own journey after experiencing challenges with his own […]
The importance of good SLEEP!
Sleep is SO underrated. The research shows us, if we don’t get enough sleep, it can have a numerous negative consequences. It also has a huge impact on our quality of life What 20 years of research shows us that the recommended it 7-9 hours. Anything consistently 6 hours or below significantly increases risk of […]
Prince Harry reveals he has been using tapping
Prince Harry has been talking about his use of tapping during a recent interview as he discusses using techniques to relieve emotional anxieties in relation to his mental health. It is reported he has been using this along with EMDR. His wife Megan is also believed to be a big advocate. She began tapping regularly […]
Tapping for anxiety and depression
What is EFT Tapping? Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) otherwise known as tapping is best likened to acupuncture without the needles. It’s an ancient Chinese acupressure therapy combined with a modern talking psychology. Meridian points are gently stimulated by light touch, while talking through the problem or issue that needs to be worked on.
Post Lockdown Anxiety
As a generation, we have never been so anxious. Anxiety manifests itself cognitively by a loss of concentration, behaviourally by the avoidance of certain situations (fear), and physiologically in disturbed sleep, rapid breathing and emotional agitation often leading to hypervigilance. Then along came COVID19 which impacted on increased levels of loneliness and isolation. This has […]
Physical signs of anxiety
When you are suffering with anxiety, you are in what’s call the ‘fight or flight’ response. What does the science show us? Your body is preparing you for a ‘dangerous’ situation and and a part of the brain is triggered to prepare for this and your body reacts in several ways physically. This response […]
COVID anxiety signs
Mental health issues are very prevalent right now, more than ever for several reasons. Not only are we dealing with something that continues to create uncertainty, fear and worry, many have been affected both directly and indirectly. While some are coping well, experts warn our emotional resilience will continue to fray and decline as this […]