Mindset

Beat Festive Stress

How to beat festive stress

This is how my Christmas’s used to go… Try to ignore that it’s happening.   Can’t ignore it as I’ve now got kids so from Dec 1st we are in full swing Chirstmas mode with advent calendars, tree and decorations.  Thank goodness I never heard about the Elf on the Shelf until I realised what hard work it would be. Try to ignore it some more. Worry about money – look at the list to buy for and crumple.  &nbs […]

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Stress

Feeling Stressed Out?

As soon as you get into work you hit the ground running and start smashing through your to-do list.  Before you know it its lunchtime but you don’t have time to eat.  Perhaps you send someone to get lunch for you to eat at your desk.  Something easy that you can wolf down quickly while you carry on working at your computer.  By this point you’ve pretty much been sitting in the same position for the last 5 hours, bar a couple of quick sprints to […]

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fear of heights

My story: Conquering my fear of heights

​I developed my fear of heights around my late teens.  My Dad had mentioned that he was scared of heights around this time, which was a new thing that had developed with age for him.  My fear manifested anywhere that there was a large drop, but also in places that were high up and otherwise safe.  I had an embarrassing family trip on the London Eye where I became paralysed with fear for the whole duration of the experience and wasn’t able to talk or move for the […]

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