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How to journal for better mental health

In my last blog post, I discussed how journaling can be a useful way to manage anxiety.

If you’re new to journaling however, you may wonder what you should write about. In this blog, I’ll outline some different approaches to journaling and give some prompts that you can use to help get you started.

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8 Ways Journaling Can Help Manage Anxiety

Journaling can be an easy and effective way to help better understand and manage your experience of anxiety.

The very act of writing can be stress relieving, and getting your thoughts down on paper can help you to better understand your thoughts, feelings, and actions.

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10 free and easy ways to make time for self-care (without any of the guilt)

Are you feeling overwhelmed with all the advice about the importance of self-care during midlife and peri/menopause?

Do you wish you had the time for your own self-care?

Do you feel guilty if you take time for self-care, and guilty that you’re not doing all the things you think you ‘should’ be doing?

Here’s 10 practical ways that will help you find time to build self-care into your life without any of the guilt.

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7 steps to overcome fears and phobias

In my previous blog, I outlined the 3 most common mistakes people make when trying to overcome fears and phobias and how these can cause fears and phobias to persist and even worsen. In this blog, I’m sharing the 7 steps you need to undertake in order to overcome fears and phobias.

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The Midlife Confidence Reset

Has your usual confidence gone MIA since you’ve reached midlife? Although it isn’t talked about much, many women experience a loss of confidence that coincides with the peri/menopause years. Here I look at the causes of this loss of confidence and ways to give it a boost.

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7 Powerful Steps to Achieve Your Goals

Do you achieve your goals, or do you avoid even setting them for fear of failure? In this blog I outline 7 powerful steps to help you achieve what is most important to you in your life.

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Feeling hot? Here's how to reduce hot flushes

Hot flushes are probably the most common and most well-known of menopause symptoms. Here I outline the causes and ways that you can reduce them, including the clinically-proven benefits of hypnotherapy for treating hot flushes.

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8 Ways to Cope with Menopausal Mood Swings

Many women struggle with frequent mood swings during the perimenopause and menopause. In this article I outline 8 ways to ease the emotional rollercoaster.

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5 steps to overcome menopause sleep issues

One of the most common problems that women experience as they go through the menopause and beyond, is insufficient sleep. In this blog I’ll outline some of the reasons why sleep gets impacted by the menopause and give 5 tips to improve your sleep.

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Reduce stress and anxiety with deep relaxation

Often, when feeling stressed, there can be a tendency to push harder, work longer, do things faster. Very often though this results in us feeling overwhelmed, frazzled and exhausted. Here I discuss three methods for learning to relax deeply and their benefits.

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Reducing Stress with the Power of Your Breath

Breathwork exercises offer simple and powerful ways to ease feelings of stress and anxiety. In this blog, I outline the reasons why and offer a couple of easy exercises that you can use to quickly regain a sense of calm and control.

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Break free from anxious thoughts

Many women find that with the arrival of mid-life, anxiety and low mood become much more common. Here I outline some ways that you can create distance from unhelpful thoughts and break free from their vicious cycle.

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Overcoming Worry

As we face uncertain times, it can feel like constant worry has become the new normal for many people.

However, this doesn’t have to be the case. Whilst, unfortunately, there’s no magic wand to make global crises go away, when you understand a bit more about why we worry, you can implement some simple practices to stop the habit loops and reduce your feelings of overwhelm.

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Ending the sleep struggle

Do you ever have nights when you just lie awake for hour after hour, your mind churning through problems, worrying about all the tasks you need to do, and getting more and more frustrated because you know you’ll be exhausted the next day? Read on to learn some helpful strategies to quieten the mind, allow the bod to relax, and ease you into sleep.

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Sleep Habits for Better Sleep

When you find that you are regularly lying-in bed awake at night, struggling to fall asleep, it may be because your brain no longer automatically associates being in bed with falling asleep. In this blog, I look at why this might be and what you can do to correct it so that you can get back to enjoying deep, restorative sleep.

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6 Easy Steps to Better Sleep

Getting good sleep is so important to our health and wellbeing. Yet many people regularly struggle to get sufficient sleep and suffer the detrimental impacts of sleep loss day after day. Discover 6 easy steps you can take today to start improving your sleep.

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