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Stress Management in Daily Life
Learning how to deal with stress and include relaxation techniques in your daily life enables a better work /life balance to be achieved. Some minor adjustments can make all the difference to stress levels.
How to Grow Older with Style and Grace
Growing older in this day and age has more potential than ever before. Older people are taking on exciting adventures and opportunities and living life to the maximum. Let’s look at this special time in life.
The Changing Role of Grandparents
Families are becoming more disjointed and disconnected as divorces and separations become commonplace. Grandparents can provide a sense of stability within the family group as the older generation are healthier and more energetic than ever.
Appreciating the Healing Power of Laughter
Laughter is surprisingly powerful as a means of healing and transforming situations. From telling jokes to enjoying an amusing show or event, these all provide an outlet for forgetting everything else and immersing ourselves in the moment. That in itself provides very therapeutic benefits.
How to Manage Stress Effectively – Use Your Amber Lights
Stress is an increasing factor of modern life. Some stress is a good thing, but if it gets out of control it can lead to ill heath and affect every area of our life. Let’s look at ways of coping better and managing stress more effectively.
My Partner Has Been Unfaithful – Can Our Relationship Survive ?
When we find out that our partner has been having an affair it is often the most devastating of discoveries. Has the whole relationship been built on lies, or is there some way that we can work through what has happened and build a stronger and closer bond together ?
Will Cosmetic Surgery Help Me to Feel Better About Myself ?
We are living in a society where increasingly if we do not like something then we change it, discard it, get something else. Increasingly this attitude seems to be applying to our bodies. Let us look at this mindset and see if there can be a more tolerant and healthy approach to how we treat ourselves.
How to Create Quality Relationships
Let’s look at some positive ways to support and maintain that special relationship in our life. It’s so easy to think that everything is fine and to let it take care of itself. But we need to invest time and effort.
Top Tips to Consider Before You Walk Away from Your Relationship
A special relationship needs attention and nurturing. It can seem appealing to walk away when times are tough, but is the grass really greener elsewhere ? Here are a few things to think about before you make that decision.
Effective Working from Home
As increasingly people are setting up as sole traders or small businesses many people are having to learn strategies to cope with a different approach to work. Becoming the boss brings a changed level of responsibility, and a diverse range of skills are needed to manage the challenge well. This in turn can bring with it much stress and pressure. Let’s look at managing this situation effectively.
The Importance of Negative Experiences
Going through negative experiences and disappointments is often a nightmare at the time. We wonder how we will make it through to the other side. But we do, and most times we are stronger for it. Let us take a little time to consider the importance of these experiences and the potential value that they add to our lives.
How to Deal with a Difficult Child
A difficult or badly behaved child can cause mayhem in a family, but they are often unhappy too. Let’s look at ways of trying to understand and then handle the situation more constructively.
Business – How to Create a Responsible Work Force
February 1 has been identified as the worst day of the year for staff sick leave. However, staff morale and stress related illness has become a major concern to many businessess throughout the year. Let’s look at ways to improve this situation.
So You Want to Stop Smoking
Smokers at one time were accepted, in fact it was almost obligatory to smoke. Nowadays many people are trying to stop smoking as it becomes regarded as more and more anti-social. Let us look at different aspects of the smoking habit.
Understanding Health Anxiety or Hypochondria
We all have times when we are concerned about our health. At these times we notice every ache and pain and may wonder if there is an underlying condition that needs treatment. When these fears start to get a stronger hold let us look at ways to help. These are my notes from my BBC Radio Manchester interview on 26 January 2010
Where Did we go Wrong in Our Relationship – Let’s Talk
Relationships can be fragile things. They have to nurtured and treated with care to maintain them. Meeting someone special is a gift. Let us look at ways to treat that gift with the care that it deserves.
Understanding Your Dreams- What They Are Trying to Say and Do For You
Dreams are an important part of health and well-being, a way of processing life and the things that happen to us. They allow us to heal and open ourselves to new possibilities and potential, and free ourselves from old hurts and limiting patterns of behaviour.
Be My Valentine – Not Just Once a Year
February 14 is a time for being prompted to remember loved ones, but how much more effective is it remember our special relationships throughout the year. Investing time and attention to our relationships is a valuable thing to do. Every day of the year.
Counselling for Couples
Susan Leigh is a South Manchester based Counsellor and Hypnotherapist with over 20 years experience. See her website, www.lifestyletherapy.net
Most of us like to have that special someone in our life, someone to come home to, a friend, a lover, a confidante to share the good and the bad with. Our thoughts, ideas or just our [...]
The Anxiety of Public Speaking
Susan Leigh is a South Manchester based Counsellor and Hypnotherapist, and a regular contributor to BBC Radio. She regularly works with professionals to help them cope better with stress and anxiety in their business and personal lives. Presentations, media exposure, speeches and interviews are now a large part of business life, and helping clients to [...]
How to Improve our Relationship with Food
Food – love it or hate it, we all have to eat. It is not like alcohol or cigarettes. We could give them up for life if we decided to do so. The truth is, food is essential to life and to health, but our relationship with food becomes complicated over the course of our lives.
Resolutions for a Better Life
Many people pick a point in life to commit to making changes about themselves – about the way that they look or the quality of their life. Let us look at positive ways of treating ourselves that bring about these improvements naturally.
How to Argue in front of the Children
Arguments and disagreement happen in life, and a valuable lesson to teach your children is that there are constructive and destructive ways to deal with disharmony. Letting children see the most positive way to communicate in these situations is an invaluable lesson for life.
Sleep, an Important Part of Health and Stress Management Commitment.
Many people live increasingly busy and pressurised lives, as they put in longer hours and have tighter targets to meet to justify their jobs and employment. Let us look at ways of getting the best balance between work and personal time, that will benefit every area of life, health and well being.