Your heart is pounding. Your breath is short and shallow. You can feel a tightness in your neck, your shoulders, your entire body. Your mind races with worry about what might happen. The more you try to think through the…
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Category: Stress and Anxiety
Tags: anxiety, Art therapy, Breathing, coping with stress, float, floatation tank, Fremantle counsellor, gestalt therapy, how to cope with anxiety, Meditation, mental health, mind-body, mindfulness, Mundaring counsellor, Mundaring Wellness Centre, Perth counsellor, relaxation, self care, self support, tools for stress, what to do when you feel anxiety, what to do when you feel anxious, yoga
What is self-compassion? Dr Kirstin Neff, one of the world’s leading experts on self-compassion, explains that it is the same as the feelings of compassion we have for others, only we turn it inward, to ourselves. She says when we…
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Category: self care, Tabs
Tags: boundaries, Brene Brown, buddhify, compassion, counsellor, ecopsychology, Fremantle counsellor, gestalt therapy, gratitude, Kate F. Hays, Kristin Neff, mind-body, mindfulness, move your body tone your mood, Mundaring counsellor, Perth counsellor, psychotherapy, self care, self compassion, smiling mind, The School of Life
This Saturday, October 10, is World Mental Health Day. This day is dedicated to world wide mental health awareness, education and advocacy; with a focus on seeking help, reducing stigma and encouraging connectedness. I’ve chosen to write about self harm. …
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Category: Self Harm, Tabs
Tags: anxiety, coping with stress, cutting, depression, Fremantle counsellor, gestalt therapy, mental health, mental health stigma, mind-body, mindfulness, Mundaring counsellor, self harm, self harm coping, shame, strategies, stress, teenage counsellor, tools for stress, WMHD15, World Mental Health Day