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 ...

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, ...

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 ...