SELFCARE WEDNESDAY: Recipe For Love
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When you consider self care you might be sceptical about why it is an important part of wellbeing. As individuals, we have different ingredients that make us do and feel better.
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This therapy blog serves to provide tips, tricks, and at home therapy techniques to try before accessing formal therapy or to compliment your current work in therapy.
Contact me with questions or to let me know how the at-home strategies are working. I'd love to hear from you!
RELATIONSHIP TUESDAY: In My Feelings
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The ability to ‘gel’ with others and live life in a way where you don’t ‘rub each other the wrong’ way is a life skill based on emotional intelligence.
A person with good emotional intelligence, or EQ, is able to understand what other people may be experiencing and recognise their own emotional process.
Read MoreMINDFULNESS MONDAY: Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
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If you’re of a certain ‘vintage’ (I know I am!), you may recall a song called ‘Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm’ by Crash Test Dummies. A big global hit in the 90’s, it’s mostly memorable for singer Brad Robert’s resonant humming of the song title.
How does this link with today’s blog? Well, it may sound a bit unusual and strange, but one helpful technique for lowering stress is called ‘vocal toning’.
Read MoreCOMMUNICATION FRIDAY: Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
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When we talk to others, we can sometimes be so solution-focused or have our own agendas that make us take over the conversation in order to get the answers or results we desire. If we can take a backwards step and provide some space, you might be surprised when the other person opens up and shares something deeper.
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