Learning to handle stress in healthy ways is very important. The following tips from the APS can help you to reduce stress and its impact on your health.
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Treating Depression
Understanding the causes of depression and the treatment for depression is the first step to setting yourself free.
Understanding Depression
Depression is a debilitating and distressing experience. There is effective treatment, help and support to become free of depression..
About Meditation
Meditation is a practice of calming the mind and brings extraordinary benefits.
Embracing Change
Why do we tend to have such resistance to change and what can we do about embracing positive change.
The Overwhelm Epidemic
Overwhelm is in essence a crushing feeling of being overloaded and out of control.
Does Perfectionism Rule?
Does perfectionism rule your life? Do you worry about how other people see you? Or how they judge you? Are your self expectations impossibly high? The Costs of Perfectionism First of all, perfectionism is a hard master. It never lets up. For this reason it is exhausting! Furthermore, it creates huge stress. Some common costs […]
Journaling For Awareness And Understanding
There are a multitude of benefits that come from a regular practice of reflective journaling.
Manage Your Feelings
How you manage your feelings has a massive impact on the quality and enjoyment of your life. A core component of counselling and therapy is to assist you to best manage your feelings. To enhance your ‘emotional intelligence’. There are many approaches to working on feelings. I use a variety of therapies, techniques and tools […]
Your Emotional Baseline
The more you practice positive thoughts and emotions, the easier it is to maintain a more positive emotional baseline through the challenges of daily life.