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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.