Your Mental Wellbeing

Useful articles to help your Mental Wellbeing.

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Six Steps to Resolution Success

Six Steps to Resolution Success Have you made any New Year resolutions? Over 70% of the population do. However by February half of these resolutions will have been broken, leaving people feeling defeated and knocking their self esteem. If this sounds like you don’t worry…… it’s not actually your fault! How would you like this […]

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Banish Negative Self Beliefs

Banish Negative Self Beliefs Having self confidence is really important in all aspects of your life, both personal and professional. But having a high self esteem can be difficult until you learn to banish negative self beliefs. A person’s opinion of themselves is usually formed during childhood and learned from parents, teachers and other important

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Avoid “eating with your eyes”

Avoid “eating with your eyes” I stated my belief in last week’s column that fad diets as a method of long term, sustainable weight loss do not work for the vast majority of people. It was interesting to see Professor Chris Hawkey, president of the British Society of Gastroenterology, confirm that theory to a conference

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Feed your mind to get slim

Feed your mind to get slim Every week across the newspaper and magazine shelves I see the same thing again and again. Almost every day one of these publications claims in big letters across the front that they have “the only diet you’ll ever need” or “revolutionary new diet”. If that really was the case,

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Quickly Beat Your Phobia

Quickly Beat Your Phobia Many people suffer from phobias, some much more serious than others. A phobia is basically a fear of something that can range from a minor aversion to a dread so debilitating that it interferes with normal life. A full-blown phobia can cause sweating, nausea, and heart palpitations along with the overwhelming

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Smoking and Stress

Smoking and Stress I see a lot of people to help them to stop smoking using hypnosis as well as other methods. Through working with smokers for years I’ve noticed patterns and similarities between the people I help. For example, virtually everyone who comes to see me will have tried various other methods first. Whether

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How to Reduce Stress

How to Reduce Stress It often feels like there is nothing you can do about stress; it’s simply part of life. However, learning to take control of your thoughts, schedule, and environment provides you with a sense of a balanced life with the resilience to hold up under pressure. Identifying the Source This first task

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Understanding Mental Health

Understanding Mental Health Tomorrow is World Mental Health Day. A day organised by the Mental Health Foundation to raise awareness and funds to help people struggling with their mental health. You can visit www.mentalhealth.org.uk to find out more. When we talk about mental health a lot of people are confused as to what we mean.

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Have an “Average” Day

Have an “Average” Day My mind works in unusual ways sometimes. As I write this I’m looking forward to a trip to Legoland tomorrow. In fact I’m not sure who is more excited, me or my 7 year old son Declan.     We were chatting about what we thought it might be like and

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