Is Your Body Trying to Tell You Something? Imagine that, from the moment you wake up until the moment you fall asleep, there’s a radio playing. Not in your kitchen. Not in your car. Inside you. I call it Read more…
Author: Carol Hickson
Hi everyone, How’s your June going? I’m back from my holiday to France. To be honest it can best be described as a game of two halves but I’ll tell you more about that another time when I’ve given myself Read more…
One of the questions that people often ask me is “Why am I so tired even when I rest?”. I thought I’d answer that question whilst also appreciating this fabulous photograph I took of a double rainbow over my greenhouse Read more…
Mental Health First Aiders…? Okay you’ve decided that you may want to have mental health first aiders in your workplace…what next? From a single Google search there are so many options available to employers. So how do you choose Read more…
Why do we get so fixated on results? Let me tell you about a young therapy client I saw recently. They play academy football and, at ten years old, the fear of failure has started to make them anxious. Read more…
Why does Mental Health matter? It’s Mental Health Awareness Week. You probably don’t need me to tell you that; you may well have seen posts on social media and even on television news programmes. Our mental health underpins how Read more…
We talk about mental resilience, but what is it? Mental Resilience is about being able to accept and adapt to change. Having a well-balanced mental state means you can react and respond successfully to all of life’s challenges. Even Read more…
What is burnout? It’s important to remember that burnout is a human condition. Other animals aren’t affected by it because they don’t experience the world in the way that we do. Our cognitive processes have a large part to Read more…
If you’re not sleeping well, it will likely have started to stress and frustrate you. The extra stress just sends you spinning further on a runaway wheel of anxiety. The more you focus on something the more it happens. I Read more…
Those people who live with chronic pain will tell you that on top of the pain itself, they feel exhausted. Constant pain debilitates you to the point where you may have days, weeks, or even months, at a time when Read more…