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Fun fact: The average person sighs approximately once every 5 minutes. That’s 12 sighs per hour and 192 hours per day during our waking...

Anxiety When an individual faces potentially harmful or worrying triggers, feelings of anxiety are not only normal but necessary for...

When something bad happens, we often relive the event over and over in our heads, rehashing the pain. This process is called rumination;...

As a person who used to catastrophise, and still does to some extent, I understand the times when we see life as bad rather than having a...

Contrary to popular misconception, you don’t have to be “crazy,” desperate, or on the brink of a meltdown to go to therapy . At the same...

Why The Anxious Mind Is Afraid Of Itself We live in a polarized society that likes to slap a label on everything — black or white, rich...

As we are in our second lockdown Feeling anxious in certain situations can help us avoid danger, it’s how we’ve evolved to keep ourselves...

BRAVE Star charts and anxious behaviour. One helpful and fun way you can help with your child’s anxious behaviours is to set up a reward...

Separation anxiety and your child. Separation anxiety is a given in most children when returning to school. For some children, it is big...

Preschoolers (ages 3-5 years) generally need between 10-13 hours of sleep per night, and school-age children (ages 6-13 years) need...

Here are eight tips that can help Kindergarten parents get their children off to a great start at their new school and reduce their...

Our brains are fascinating organs and each one is completely unique. Whilst we all see the world in a unique way, we all have a brain...

Anxiety can create a life where you listen more to the voice in your head than you do to yourself. Anxiety makes us over think and doubt...

The breath plays an important role in our ability to calm ourselves. The more we deep breath, the more our brain gets the signal that we...

Asking "why are you anxious" can be difficult to answer especially for children. The way anxiety works, our reasoning goes out of the...

When feeling anxious, pretty much everything gets forgotten and our breathing speeds up. When we are triggered and feeling overwhelmed,...

Be solution-focused rather than problem focused. Learn to recognise where in your body your first sign of anxiety is and do something to...