Garys Latest Articles On CBT Therapy, Self Care and Counselling
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Feeling overwhelmed in life?
The car crash. I was the back seat passenger in a car driving in the west of Ireland when we came to a corner on a country road and the car just skidded into the corner through a small stone wall and dropped 30 feet turning upside down and landing on the roof. I always remember a feeling of no gravity, just floating and then bang.Everybody was calling they were ok and I found myself
How to build happiness & prevent animosity.
The need for help with depression and anxiety. “I admit it: things annoy me. Like drivers who don’t signal, or people who skip the queue. I wonder, what in the world were they thinking?! Sometimes the world seems like it’s run by very stupid people. I don’t want to be a grouch, so I bite my tongue most of the time. But I know my attitudes leak out. Tell me something deeper than the usual
Have you ever tried CBT? (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)
Have you ever paid any attention to your thoughts, especially the negative ones? Most people tend to wander through life without really paying any attention to what is going through their minds. Your thoughts refer to the ways that you make sense of situations. Thoughts can take a number of forms, including verbal forms such as words, sentences, and explicit ideas, as well as non-verbal forms such as mental images. Thoughts are the running commentary
What is the mystery of self-care?
Here are some self-care tips Self-care doesn’t have to be elaborate or complicated. It simply means tending to your well-being and happiness. Self-care can be seen to be self-indulgence or being selfish. Consequently, people are left feeling overwhelmed, tired, and ill-equipped to handle life's inevitable challenges. Self-care means taking care of yourself so that you can be healthy, you can be well, you can do your job, can help and care for others, and can
Help reduce anxiety and stress.
Finding it difficult to move forward and get through life's obstacles? Whether we like it or not, life's obstacles and problems are coming our way, the good things in life are also coming our way but we tend to hold onto the problems as many of us lack the ability to tackle the problems. Where you are now and where you want to be in the future, is rarely a straight line and almost never