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Think back to the last time you felt truly relaxed. Can you remember how it felt? Now, contrast that with a moment of high stress – your heart racing, mind...
In the intricate tapestry of human emotions, neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that play a key role in our wellbeing and happiness. There are around 100 of them in total. GABA,...
In today’s society, there is a prevailing notion that feeling anything other than happiness or coping well with life’s challenges is inherently not acceptable. As a result, many of us...
Are you familiar with those moments when you find yourself or someone you know caught up in a cycle of self-pity and the belief that the world owes you something?...
Research tells us that the relationship between food and our mood is bidirectional – meaning that our mood affects what we eat, and what we eat affects our mood. However,...
Do you notice the rise of the sun on the horizon in the morning or the way the leaves dance as the breeze picks them up? If you go for...
With the pace most people live at, it can be easy to lose ourselves to the demands of modern life and realise months (or sometimes years) down the track that...
The pace of the modern world seems to demand that we move at a million miles an hour from the moment we crack our eyes open in the morning to...
When we get irritated, we tend to look externally for answers. We blame our particularly challenging day, the extra hour we spent stuck in traffic or our partner or children...
If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll know I’m a big fan of journaling. It’s something I have personally done since I was a little girl and found...
Nobody likes to feel uncomfortable. As humans we have a natural tendency to seek out pleasure and avoid pain. It’s a tendency that sees us living at full speed, rarely...
If you’re familiar with my work, you will know that one of my suggestions for reducing stress in your life is to practise gratitude. This is because it’s impossible for...
When we feel anxious on a regular basis it can take a significant toll on our health, not to mention our quality of life. It can create a ripple effect...
Have you ever felt the desire or need to be perfect, either in some area of your life or across all of it? Maybe you want your appearance to look...
When we think of our mood, we tend to think of it as being related to our brain. Yet many neurotransmitters are actually made in the gut. Serotonin is a...
Health, vitality and our ability to live from a calm centre is not a black and white concept. These states are created from hundreds if not thousands of tiny decisions...
Many of us are taught that any ‘negative’ feeling is wrong. We aren’t taught this with actual words, but through observing how other people deal with these emotions when they...