Skills To Lower Anxiety – Part 3

Skills To Lower Anxiety – Part 3

Comfort with Ambiguity In planning this three part series on skills to lower anxiety I did consider putting comfort with ambiguity as number one as just about everyone with anxiety struggles with this one. What I mean by ambiguity is ‘not knowing’. Humans in general...
Skills to Lower Anxiety – Part 2

Skills to Lower Anxiety – Part 2

What winds you up? Or perhaps the questions should be ‘who’ winds you up? In Skills To Lower Anxiety Part 1, I talked about practicing of patience, a skill I need to practice in particular. In Part 2, we’re going to be focusing on another skill, Acceptance. Acceptance...
Skills to Lower Anxiety – Part 1

Skills to Lower Anxiety – Part 1

How many times did you hear ‘Patience is a virtue’ as a child? I wouldn’t know how many times my parents said it to me and I think I must have ignored their attempt to teach me this life skill every time because it’s a lesson I still don’t seem to have learnt....
How Does Agoraphobia Develop?

How Does Agoraphobia Develop?

I was asked recently to write a blog post on Agoraphobia – if you’ve not heard of it before official definition is “extreme or irrational fear of open or public places” So we know what agoraphobia means, but what actually is it and how do you...