Category: Women’s Health

Mindful eating…say what?

For me, the best way to understand exactly what eating mindfully means, is to think about it’s opposite – mindless eating.

Pushing back on the emotional load

  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 […]

Parenting and the anxious personality

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).

Ditch the New Year’s resolutions once and for all

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…  

Why am I so angry?

People often view anger quite negatively, sometimes due to how they were brought up themselves, for example you might remember being told “Don’t get angry” or “You need to go in your room until you calm down.” Despite this, anger is quite a normal emotion and really useful for us to understand ourselves better.  

I’m pregnant, I should be happy….right?

A lot of people are unaware that depression or anxiety can strike during pregnancy. Indeed, most of the focus seems to be on the mental health of mothers after they have had their baby, more commonly known as post natal or post partum depression.