Stress Management

I could call myself a “semi housewife” now but this hasn’t always been the case. I stopped working full time a few short months ago as I wanted to spend more time with my husband and my children and due to our financial circumstances I am lucky that I can afford to do this. I still do work part time, but it is on my terms, which is nice as I am now able to fit in what I do around my home life rather than the other way around. I worked as a stress management and group therapist for 13 years. I have watched how medical care has changed and I can only say that I am glad that medicine is at last taking on a more holistic approach , now ...  Read the complete review

Some degree of stress in life is inevitable and even desirable however, prolonged stress can lead to serious mental and physical problems; so what can be done to reduce the harmful effects and take back control of your life? The first step is to understand how stress works. As animals, we have a fight or flight mechanism which leads us to respond to threats. Some people's 'threat sensors' are over-sensitive and like a car alarm that goes off at the slightest vibration, they over-react to situations and become stressed very easily. For such people, there are two useful techniques that can be used. The first is to interrupt the bi-feedback loop. When ...  Read the complete review

Always on the go and struggling to switch off? Do you feel as though there are never enough hours in the day.... that you get to the end of the week and wonder where the days have gone? Do you spend all your days running around, never seeming to have time to sit down.... yet you get to the end of the evening and have difficulty working out what you have achieved? Do you start each day with good intentions, making lists of jobs to do.... and still find that you have loads of things outstanding at the end of the day? When we lead busy lives, trying to juggle work, families and keeping house, making time for ourselves falls even further down the ...  Read the complete review

Stress is a very common problem that all of us suffer to a little or larger scale depending upon the nature of physical or mental routine of ours. Stress can both be physical or mental owing to the nature of your activities. And in both of its kinds, your habits are the key factor responsible for it. So when we search for the thumb rule to eliminate stress, its is, “change your habits”. But habits are like chains of friendship, too light to be felt and too strong to be broken. As habits will take a while to change, we can work out some course of action that relaxes us from the daily stress. I have been reading about stress and the ways to fight it out, ...  Read the complete review

Everyone knows what anger is - we have all lashed out from time to time and most of us will have been on the receiving end of someone else's wrath - but when anger gets out of control it can have a serious impact on yours and others lives. From road rage incidents in the local high street to talkshow confrontations refereed by Jerry Springer or Rikki Lake, and angry soap characters like Eastenders' Phil Mitchell, we are surrounded by people losing their tempers these days. I recently read that research has found that temper tantrums cost Britons an estimated £16 billion every year, with each person spending an average of £420 replacing smashed ...  Read the complete review