Mental health, emotional wellbeing & personal development
When we feel unhappy, our emotional disturbances come from our thoughts. Dr Albert Ellis identified 11 irrational beliefs that cause us to feel emotions such as anger, hate, worry, panic, insecurity, jealousy, passivity, procrastination, and other forms of escape. To reduce these unwelcome emotions involves…
There is nothing worse than low confidence. Low confidence makes you doubt yourself and whether you have low confidence because of your looks, your clothes, your general air of shyness – you need to do what you can to build it up! You deserve…
Acceptance and distress tolerance Life’s not fair. I can think of many things that seem unjust. I just have to watch the news or listen to people’s stories to confirm this. If you’ve ever found yourself saying “Why me?” or “It’s not fair”, you may…
The phrase “learning to love yourself” gets bandied about quite a lot, but what does self-love mean? And how do you show yourself, love? What Self-Love Is And Is Not Let’s first begin with what self-love is NOT. Loving yourself isn’t a narcissistic…
What do you fear the most? Is it being alone, being poor, being rejected or something else? We all fear something and we develop behaviours to help us avoid these real or imagined outcomes. Sometimes the plans we create work well for us but often…
Tools to Raise Your Self-esteem Here are 25 ways to raise your self-esteem: 1. Figure out what your problem is. Realize your problem isn’t who you are, it’s what you have used to protect your physical and emotional well being. It’s hiding who you are: a beautiful…
Have you ever asked yourself whether you value yourself enough? When we value ourselves we tend to have increased happiness levels, we maintain clear boundaries and we have no problem speaking up for ourselves. We are born blank slates, as we grow older we begin…
No matter how many dates you go on, or how many people you go out with, dating remains a mystery that’s difficult to crack for most people. Whether you’re just looking to have fun at a casual social outing or if you’re searching for your soulmate,…
What is confidence and why do some people seem to be more confident? Confidence is a combination of genetic make up but also your attitude and how youor brain processes information around you. The good news os that you can train your brain to promote…
Feeling confident is a state of mind but we can’t always feel invincible. Feeling confident comes and goes. I wish there was a ‘confidence pill’ but until someone invents one we have to figure out other ways to find confidence when we feel shaky and…
We have so many things going for us, don’t we? Despite the limited number of hours in a day, we are somehow able to include time for work, family, friends, and even other extracurricular activities into our already busy schedules. But how much time do…
What constitutes confident behaviour in relationships? We’d all like to come across as supremely confident and self assured when in a relationship with someone but when we really like someone, our confidence can go to pieces. There are certain things you should and shouldn’t do…