What is Resilience? Resilience can be described as an adaptation to extraordinary circumstances (i.e. risks) by achieving positive and unexpected outcomes in the face of adversity. Or in everyday language, Resilience can also be defined as having the ability to bounce back or to roll with the punches and cope with life events, both negative […]
Motivation is a strange thing. It is the inner drive towards a particular goal and is the very thing that keeps you persisting and pushing through. In many ways, motivation is what gets us out of bed in the morning as we are motivated to succeed at our jobs, receive a salary and pay our […]
You’ve heard all the cliches about ageing. You know the ones – when you get older you’ll be frail and helpless, grumpy and depressed, alone and lonely. Of course those cliches are rarely true! Older people have well established and enjoyable social and family contacts, and in general have even less depressive or anxious symptoms […]
In this current liberal social environment, there are very few subjects that most people won’t tackle in general conversation. People now talk openly about topics that would only have been whispered about a few years ago, and certainly not raised in mixed gender group discussions. Social issues such as sexual assault, violence against women, incest, […]
There are a million ways that people can be brought down by society and made to feel less than they are as human beings. Violence in the home or on the streets, bullying and intimidation at work or in important relationships, blows to self confidence from real or perceived incidents are just some of what […]
Many of us struggle with low self-esteem and lack of confidence and most of us believe that our self-esteem is based on how we look or act. But self-esteem, is in fact, based in emotion – it is how we feel about ourselves that depicts whether we have good or poor self-esteem. The same goes […]
We have been bombarded with a social climate of ‘positive thinking’ to reach ‘happiness’ and ‘success’. There are a variety of self-help books that are aimed at teaching you how to think positively, find happiness and achieve success. While many of these books are tremendously helpful and certainly do have their merits, one has to […]
No one enjoys ending a relationship – there is always loss and disappointment involved. But sometimes it is better to acknowledge that you are in a relationship that is going nowhere fast and put an end to it sooner rather than later. All relationships have their good days and their bad days. There will be […]
Phobias are irrational fears of an object, situation or activity that are so pronounced that people with a phobia will go to any lengths to avoid it. Current estimates of the percentage of the population that have phobias are around 10%. This is quite a significant number of people whose quality of life in some […]
Stress and anxiety have become common place in the hustle and bustle of our daily lives. Before long the feeling of stress becomes so familiar that we no longer notice the constant pressurised feeling and it is only when we begin to experience full blown anxiety attacks that we realise it is time to slow […]