Are you: Depressed, Stressed, Anxious or suffering from PTSD? If you are employed in any area of “front line” activities whether in military, Para-medic, fire fighter, police, a doctor, or even a midwife or a teacher there is almost an 75% chance you have been exposed to events which may cause have caused trauma or […]
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The heading above appeared in my local Sunday paper and immediately drew my attention. The reason for this is that I am involved in weight loss using healthy eating, hypnosis and virtual gastric banding. For a long time I maintained that so called healthy foods contain too much sugar and are not always healthy for you,
Many people who have experienced trauma in the past carry a lot of blame, shame and guilt. When we have a traumatic or stressful event in our lives the body goes into a survival mode; fight, flight or freeze. In other words, our choices are to fight, run away or if the event is overwhelming
I sometimes get clients who come to me and say that they feel demotivated, they procrastinate and they sabotage themselves. This tells me that they are living their lives according to their lowest values. When you are living your life to your highest values you will not feel demotivate, will not need to procrastinate and
Conscious vs Subconscious We have two states of mind, the conscious and the unconscious. There is a vast difference in the size of these two states. If you were to imagine a sitting room, then one of the chairs would be the size of the conscious mind whilst the rest of the room would be
I have just returned from Malaysia and in my travels and talking with people depression seems to be a lot less than in Australia. There is a gene for depression and it seems that this gene is more prevalent in Asian people than in people with a European background. When we examine depression it is
Tolerance is a great word and when practiced leads to much smoother relationships between one another. In most cases we are fairly tolerant but there always seems to be that situation or person which we just cannot tolerate. It’s that pet hate or that certain person who just rubs us up the wrong way. When
Everybody lives their lives according to their top values and the way we live our lives demonstrates our values. We can have three types of relationships, where we impose our values on the other person (careless relationship) or where we allow someone else to impose their values on us (careful relationship). The third type of
Everything in life comes down to choice, there is always a choice. You can make a choice to support what you want or can make a choice not to support it. One of the biggest problems is that we often do not have a clear precise idea of what you want. Weight loss is a
The word failure has many negative connotations. When we think of failure we think that it is something that we have done wrong, we have not done enough. We beat ourselves up and we lower our self-esteem. What if we look at failure in a different way? Failure is not failure in the conventional sense.
