This is something that isn’t talked about much in counselling and psychology, as health practitioners often tend to focus on the problematic aspects of anxiety. To be fair, anxiety when it’s bad can feel awful and severely disrupt a person’s enjoyment of life. But there are other, more positive ways to think about it too …
It’s not easy when you suddenly find the dynamic in your relationship has changed because your partner has been diagnosed with anxiety, depression, or both. This article aims to equip you with some tools that will benefit both them and you.
If you’re not familiar with the term “emotional load”, you will probably still recognise what I’m talking about. It’s that feeling of remembering about a thousand things at once: the doctor’s appointment that needs to be booked, that play date you were meant to reciprocate, the ingredients for dinner that need to be bought and …
Recently I attended an interesting workshop on parenting with anxiety, and how it impacts expecting and new parents. Of particular interest was the focus on personality factors that contribute to perinatal anxiety (anxiety before and after childbirth).
It’s that time of the year when we start with those impossible to keep ‘absolutes’ – I will lose weight, I will not shout at the kids…sound familiar? Instead of feeling like a failure the minute you cannot keep to one of your new resolutions, why not try something different instead…
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