Jan 10, 2019 | anxiety, children, mental health, support
Understanding anxiety is difficult when you live with it but watching someone living with it is even more perplexing. You don’t recognise the dangers that cause the intense fear and extreme behaviours. You can’t feel the quickening pace of the heart, short...
Dec 15, 2018 | anxiety, Bullying, children, Emotions, mental health, support
Suicide and how adults and children get to feel it is the only option are on my mind constantly. My children are excited and looking forward to Christmas but spare a thought to children struggling with anxiety, depression or bullying. Where excitement becomes an...
Dec 5, 2018 | anxiety, mental health
The holiday season can be a stressful time for anyone and with all the forced cheer and merriment presented on social media the pressure to be ‘happy’ can have us questioning why we don’t feel it. We must take time to remember a post or picture on...
Sep 26, 2018 | anxiety, fear, mental health, support
Anxiety makes our bodies and minds do, see and think things that may or may not be true. Your body takes on a life of it’s own. Your mind goes off stomping through the worst case scenarios grasping at each one, building the fear and anxiety as it goes. Although it...
Sep 12, 2018 | anxiety, coaching, mental health, support
I see the impact the stigma around mental health has on people every day. Time for mental health to be understood and accepted as physical health is. Being mentally unwell is such a struggle anyway, you feel like a failure, you can’t cope with life, you struggle...
Jul 10, 2018 | anxiety, children, choice, mental health, support
Harrison has anxiety. He is thirteen years old, has just returned from a school trip to Austria and is nearly eighteen months anxiety and panic attack free. At its peak, Harrison was having eight to nine panic attacks a day. His anxiety had become a familiar part of...
