Is Being a People-Pleaser Damaging Your Mental Health?

“I can feel calm and happy in myself when I’m alone, but other people’s negativity can bring me down straight away.”

“I get so exhausted because I don’t know how to say NO to other people’s demands on my time and energy.”

“I’ve spent my life taking care of everyone else and now I’m realizing I need to take care of myself to be happy, but I feel guilty if I put myself first”

“I have a friend/boss/co-worker who is treating me in a way I don’t like, but I don’t know how to tell them”.… Keep reading...

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Beat High-Functioning Anxiety: How to Stop Feeling Rushed, Busy & Overwhelmed

Do you ever wake up in the morning and a mental to-do list immediately crashes through your brain? And you get that rushed, overwhelmed feeling before you’ve even gotten out of bed? It’s almost like your alarm clock is a starting gun, and bang – you’re up and off the the races…racing against time to get everything done!

I certainly have, and  it’s not a nice way to live…but thankfully I have a few tips to help get off the hamster wheel of feeling chronically stressed and frazzled.… Keep reading...

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How to Cultivate Self-Compassion & Overcome Your Inner Critic (Part 4 of 4)

In the final installment of this 4-part blog series on self-compassion, I wanted to share with you useful resources you can use to deepen your journey to mindful self-compassion and healing…

THE SELF-COMPASSION TEST

Want to really find out how compassionate (or critical) you are of yourself? Take the free online test created by researcher Kristin Neff.

COURSES

The ultimate course in self-compassion is by Drs Kristin Neff and Chris Germer from the Mindful Self-Compassion Institute which you can check out here: https://self-compassion.org/the-program/… Keep reading...

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Guided Meditation for Anxiety

If you’ve ever experienced the racing panic and fear of anxiety, then I feel for you – it truly is an awful and frightening experience. Anxiety is on the rise,especially for women, and while medications from your GP may be of assistance for some people, many come with nasty side effects and don’t really help you learn how to cope better and respond differently to the stressors in your life.

Thankfully, mindfulness meditation has been studied a lot as a treatment for anxiety, and the results have been very positive – in fact, regular meditation has been shown to be as effective as drugs – but without the side effects!… Keep reading...

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How to Meditate When You Feel TOO STRESSED to Meditate!

Ever felt too anxious, keyed-up, restless or overwhelmed to meditate? (Gimme an “Amen!”)…

This little video quickie has got 4 tips to help you sit down and meditate when you KNOW it would do you the world of good you feel like you just CAN’T settle down enough to do it!

Take a few minutes to watch then let me know in the comments below…can you relate? Have you ever felt so uptight you knew you should meditate but felt like you wouldn’t even be able to plonk your bum down for more than a minute?… Keep reading...

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