As the year starts to roll on and the pressures of life ramp up, many people can begin to feel anxious about their capacity to cope. Anxiety is often a response to a feeling out of control or overwhelmed. To help combat this feeling of anxiety, it can be helpful to develop skills around 'grounding'.
Read More“Exam time”…. it may feel like a long way off, but how you think about it, may influence how you navigate the year…
At the end of last year, as I was driving the kids to school, the fluid happy banter and bickering, was not there. Instead of the usual silliness that made each other laugh, the air was pricked with anxiety.
Read MoreIt is the day before school starts and, I find myself up late sewing on the last of the name tags to the children’s school uniform. As I struggle to thread the needle once again, I wonder to myself “what am I really doing here?”… There is something about the quality of the sewing, the need to sew a tag on every item of clothing, with such care and urgency, that makes me wonder. As I tune into this wondering and sense into my body, I recall sitting alone on my bedroom floor as an adolescent, sewing name tags on to my own clothes before heading off to boarding school. The excitement quickly drowned out by a sense of overwhelming dread.
Read MoreSummer holidays are nearly over here in Australia. The summer is a time when the children are off school for up to 2 months and many businesses slow down or even close their doors - the nation takes a vacation.
At home, the TV stays on with that strange game called cricket playing in the background, puzzles and board games remain on the floor for days on end, fans whirring and midday naps common place, the days are long, slow and hot.
Read MoreThere is something so perfect about time on the beach
The sand in its capacity to enter every nook and crevice
Between my toes, up my togs and despite my efforts through too many pages of my book
Sand demands I stay present
Present to my experience
Read MoreGroup therapy is the most amazing experience
Whilst I learn a lot about myself in individual therapy
And explore the possibility of alternate ways of being
It is in group therapy that this learning is magnified and my way of being is most actively transformed
Read MoreLife for me is about relationships
And within this
Increasingly I have an appreciation for the conversations that matter
Yet I note the courage it takes for me to share the truth of my experience
Read MoreWhen my son was four years old, I would give him a $5 dollar note and send him to the little corner store about 10 houses up from our place. Pulling a rusty red wagon behind him, he’d head off up our road to buy a couple of cartons of milk, feeling like he was Buzz Lightyear on a very important mission.
Read MoreThis morning when ordering a take-away coffee, I ask the barista how he is doing? With a big beaming smile, he shares that last night he proposed to his girlfriend.
Touched by the beauty of his delight, instantly my eyes fill with tears. We laugh at my response and unperturbed he goes on to tell me the details of the proposal, as well as his desire to marry with all of his family present, including his elderly grandfather.
Read MoreIn my work, I meet a lot of people who described themselves as “stressed”, “not-coping”, “anxious”, and often in these states, fear that there is something that is terribly wrong with them for this to be happening in their world.
In this short post, I will outline some simple lifestyle changes you can make that are likely to reduce your stress levels.
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