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Why you shouldn’t resent takers in your life and how to stop them
There are people who are so nice they end up feeling as if they’re being taken advantage of and others are taking from them too much. They feel put upon and become exhausted by running around after other people helping – and never seem to get anything in return! There is a reason why this happens and there are strategies for stopping it too.
3 Strategies to help you break through the yoyo diet self sabotage cycle
Many dieters go through the same cycle all their life – 1. Get in control and go on a diet. 2. Be good for a while, eating healthily and lose weight 3. Lose control one day and eat something ‘naughty’ 4. Completely lose control, go back to old eating habits and put on more weight than before. You can break this cycle, but you need to understand why it happens and then what you need to do to prevent it.
Newsflash – Putting Yourself First is NOT Selfish
It’s drilled into us from an early age not to be selfish, but has this message become misinterpreted along the way into adult life and have we forgotten the distinction between selfish and selfless. Looking after your own needs as a priority is not selfish, this is why.
Why do people turn their back on you when you have depression?
Sadly people with depression can become more and more isolated as the depression depends it often seems as if friends and family stop calling, visiting or inviting the person suffering from depression to social events. To the afflicted person it can appear as if everyone is turning their back on them, but why is this?
How did I cope ….? Guest Post
New Year, New Hope A new year is a time of hope, new resolutions and energy to resolve issues and change unwanted or unhappy circumstances, so to kick of the new year, I've decided to start with a collective of posts from our wonderful contacts at Old Town...
What makes you so angry?
When anger takes over the person who suffers the most is the person getting angry. If that’s you, understanding why you get angry and what you can do instead empower you to take back control of the triggers. The key to remaining calm is in keeping intellectual control, but how do you do that? …
Living with MS – Guest Post by Amy Cave-Ayland
Our Guest Blog this month comes from Amy Cave-Ayland. As a young woman, Amy has been diagnosed with MS Multiple Sclerosis, this is how she copes with living with an incurable disease.
How To Move On
Moving on from something or someone can be hard and it seems to make no difference whether the circumstances or person we need to move on from was a good or a bad thing. Letting go and stopping the thoughts and memories from going around in your mind can be tricky, but there are ways you can help yourself and here are a few.
Why treating symptoms of anxiety and depression isn’t the answer
If you want to stop an itch, you do put cream on that itch or do you stop exposing yourself to whatever is causing the itch. In the same vein, treating symptoms of anxiety might give you temporary relief, but it doesn’t cure them if you keep doing the same things that cause anxiety. Find
How I Found My Happy Place – Guest Post
Today’s blog is from someone who I admire hugely, she is an inspiration to everyone who knows her. I met Adriane back in 1989 and I’m proud to call her my friend, she’s been through many ups and downs in the last twenty years or so and I asked if she would mind sharing with us her journey and how she has re-engineered her life.
Why global thinking is bad for anxiety and depression
People with anxiety and depression tend to think in an ‘all or nothing’ way. It comes from the primitive times when life was about eat or be eaten, kill or be kills, but thinking in global terms demonstrates that you are in your flight or fight primitive brain. This video tells you why that’s bad for you.
Something everyone with depression does wrong
If you suffer from depression you do this. People who don’t have a problem with depression don’t. Becoming aware of it empower you to change or stop it. Watch the video to discover what it is you are doing that is keeping you trapped in depression.
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