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…
Author: Carol Hickson
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…
A while ago, I was invited to be a Denise Oliver’s guest on Calon FM‘s Empowerment Hour. There’s a brief description of why I retrained as a therapist and also, a short explanation of the flight or flight response. Have Read more…
Generalisations, we all make them. There you go – there’s another one! In fact, generalisations are one of the filters our minds use to make our personal meaning of the world. Some are useful shortcuts for us to follow. Like Read more…
We live in interesting times. It seems that the world has been shaken like a snow globe and nobody is quite sure where it’s going to settle. There’s a sense that the world is recalibrating, forcing us to address issues Read more…