Feeling lost.

I’ve now been out of work for 4 weeks, 4 weeks since my anxiety exploded and left me in a vulnerable and scary place. With the help of mindfulness meditation, medication, yoga, swimming and diary writing I am now able to leave the house and feel able to manage with being on my own most…

What do you do when anxiety spikes out of no where and rears its ugly head….?

So with adopting a positive attitude of small steps, low pressure, introducing exercise, progressive muscle relaxation, abdominal breathing and challenging my negative self alongside medication I’ve been making positive overall progress. However today my anxiety decided to spike out of no where and rear its ugly head. I had afternoon tea planned with two friends…

EFT Therapy – My experience.

Hey guys, Today I am going to be talking about EFT therapy and my experience with it and also to let you guys know all about it. As you probably know I suffer with anxiety, panic attacks and a few other mental health issues. I have tried most things to try to help with my…

Reflections of an anxious mind.

Today has been a more difficult day, the novelty of being signed off work and trying to busy my time with other activities to heal myself has well and truely worn off and I’m now left with an empty void and huge amount of worry. The Dr continues to muddle around with my med’s (currently…

Exercise as therapy 🙏🏻

Today I took the advice I have read on multiple websites and also within the book I’ve been reading and went for some therapeutic exercise. I re-joined my local gym on Friday after about 9-12 months out. The ironic thing is, I quit the gym because life has become too busy and I didn’t have…

Towards a life with lowered anxiety and panic – Self help book

The best thing I did in my early stages of desperation to ‘get better’ was order a self help book. There are many on the market and I chose The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook. I’m around a 1/3 of the way through the book and feel that I have learnt so much already. Not only…

Useful app’s to aid calm and fight anxiety

One of the easiest and most accessible means of focussing better attention on your mental well-being is using app’s on your phone. I’ve detailed some of the app’s I’ve found most useful in the past couple of weeks for you to have a look at and decide if these would be helpful for you too….

Working on the calm after the storm….

It’s been almost two weeks since that overwhelming feeling hit, two weeks since I realised that I couldn’t keep running at a million miles an hour and expect my body and mind to just keep ticking along nicely. Within the space of a day I went from being a highly functioning social worker running a…