Butterflies are a sign you are about to do something awesome
“Why do we get butterflies mummy? I feel sick.” This was from my 10year old daughter, just before I dropped her off at school earlier this week, on the day of her music exam. I know how she felt, having struggled with anxiety for years, it still shows up every so often, especially if there’s something “big” happening. Butterflies are your body’s way of saying “I’m anxious” Over time, I’ve learned to accept and control my anxiety, but it has taken a lot of time, patience, some therapy and medication along the way. And now they are just butterflies, they are no longer the herd of raging stampeding elephants that…
What is great about you?
What do you like about yourself? The last few weeks I have heard lots of people talk about New Year Resolutions. However, when we make new year resolutions, often we look for problems that we want to fix. Then we make changes to improve something about ourselves or stop doing something we don’t like. On the surface of it, we think that this is a really good thing, because we are striving for getting better and improving ourselves. What we don’t realise is this: whilst we are looking for things to fix, subconsciously we are thinking that there is something wrong with us. We think that we are not…
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15th January – self-compassion
Practice having self-compassion At the moment we are all dealing with so many different pressures and sources of stress. I am hearing every day from my patients about the challenges they are facing: changes to work, working from home, being furloughed, being out-of-work, key-workers being overworked and busier than ever to meet the demands of the pandemic, parents trying to juggle the demands of homeschooling and working at home, people who have been unwell, people with unwell relatives, the list just goes on and on and on… One thing which almost all of my patients say to me when they tell me how difficult they are finding things is “I…
