by Emma Sobey | Nov 1, 2016 | Anxiety
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...
by Emma Sobey | Oct 25, 2016 | Anger, Anxiety, Depression
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...
by Emma Sobey | Oct 18, 2016 | Anger, Anxiety, Eating Disorders
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....
by Emma Sobey | Sep 29, 2016 | Anxiety, Anxiety & Depression, Depression
If you have anxiety and/or depression you will be familiar with obsessive thinking as it is one of the characteristics of the conditions along with global thinking, self-centric thinking, negative forecasting of the future or negative introspecting of yourself, your...
by Emma Sobey | Aug 17, 2016 | Anxiety, Hypno Blog
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...
by Emma Sobey | Jul 8, 2016 | Anxiety, Hypno Blog
There are three specific things that people who have developed anxiety do that other people don’t. The good news is that everyone can learn to change any of these things. 1.Negatively forecast the future. People with anxiety use their imagination to imagine all...