Financial trauma is characterised as a dysfunctional reaction to chronic financial worries and stress. When we think of trauma we tend to understand it as something that is caused by a singular traumatic event, such as a natural disaster, a personal assault, or a road accident. The same can also be applied to individual trauma surrounding money. This could involve […]
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Anxiety, perhaps closely followed more recently by the word ‘trauma’, are words that can be commonly overused in counselling and psychotherapy circles. Anxiety is a term that is even more dominant in mental health settings when you look at the news. For example, the US Preventive Services Task Force, an independent volunteer panel of experts
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Sometimes I wonder if there are increasing levels of anxiety around in a post pandemic social environment. Perhaps we got more accustomed to managing our environment when there were lockdowns and less people about in the course of everyday life. We might have become more relaxed working from home and perhaps felt more autonomous when
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Ah, yes, that time of packing away the seasonal decorations and lights is upon us and with perhaps little on the immediate horizon, in the way of excitement, it can be common to experience low mood. The parties are over and family and friends have departed and perhaps worse still, the credit card bills are
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Meditation can often be unfairly associated with new age spiritualists, or oddballs, or indeed the pious, but actually meditation should be a practice for everyone. Meditation can also be seen as being the remit of those who are more somatic in nature and who operate in a felt sense manner in how they relate to others. But
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It is common to have anxieties about returning to an office location following a period of extended homeworking, whether that is a hybrid approach or a full time return to a physical location. Lockdown will have affected us all in very different ways. It is very common to have worries about ongoing safety and protection
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Sometimes there are buzzwords in the self-help field, some that come and go and some that stick around. When the late John Bradshaw was around, everybody seemingly needed to refer to their ‘family of origin’ issues and specifically to address their ‘inner child’ in order to self actualise. Therapy became ‘inner child’ centred in many
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The term sexual anorexia is one (amongst many) that causes a fair bit of conflicting discussion in the addiction treatment and therapy field. For some the term trivialises the more serious eating disorder conditions by seeking to give credibility to a behavioural pattern that is not pathological. For others the two conditions share similar characteristics
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Studies have shown that roughly one in five of us will suffer from anxiety or depression at some point in our lives. There are, of course, many types of anxiety. For some anxiety might involve suffering the symptoms of Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) to full blown panic attacks to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). In England,
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A major research study from the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) and the University of Cambridge reported on its findings earlier this week. The study involved tracking over 16000 Britons over a period of 15 years and found that men who suffered from anxiety were more at risk of dying from cancer as those men
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