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 | Oct 11, 2016 | Depression
It has been known for a while that depression is due to a chemical imbalance, but a new theory is gaining ground scientifically that suggests depression could be an allergic reaction. When something ‘foreign’ enters the body, the immune system jumps into action. This...
by Emma Sobey | Oct 4, 2016 | Anxiety & Depression
When anxiety levels build and stress becomes overwhelming it can seem like we’re going around and around in circles, just like being on a hamster wheel, unable to get off. There are strategies you can use to help break this vicious cycle and leap off the hamster...
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...
