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Phobia

How to Support Someone with a Phobia

If you know someone living with a phobia, it can be tough to know how to help. Maybe your child has an intense fear of the dark that’s stopping them sleeping at night, or maybe a friend or colleague’s fear

Stress

Why you’re thinking about stress wrong

When most people say ‘I’m feeling super stressed right now’ or ‘I’m dealing with a lot of stress at the moment’, it is rarely meant as a good thing. You’d rarely see anyone announce how stressed they were with a

Stress

What you need to know about cortisol

One of the first steps to overcoming stress is understanding how it affects your body on a chemical level. Stress isn’t just a feeling: it’s a series of changes to your body and mind brought on by the release of

Anxiety

Sleep anxiety: how to put your fears to bed

If you’ve never struggled with any kind of sleep disorder, you might think that falling asleep should be the most natural thing in the world. You wake up, you tire yourself out during the day, and as long as you

Anxiety

Stop treating anxiety like the enemy

Whenever I treat people struggling with high levels of anxiety, they oftens start treatment with one goal in mind: not feeling anxious anymore. And that makes sense. Living with constant negative thoughts flying through your head, feeling perpetually tense and

Anxiety

Why anxiety comes back after treatment – and what to do

Anxiety disorders like general anxiety, social anxiety and phobias affect millions of people around the world. And they rarely go away on their own. If you’ve one of the many individuals living with chronic anxiety, you may have tried all

Anxiety

Which anxiety disorder do I have?

An anxiety disorder is a mental health condition which causes you extreme levels of worry. While everyone gets nervous about different things from time to time, people with anxiety disorders suffer from intense worry which causes serious impairment to their

Anxiety

Natural ways to fight anxiety that are completely free

In today’s world you don’t have to look far to find reasons to worry. Just turn on the news, scroll your social media feed, or check your bank balance for a quick reminder that we live in strange, uncertain times.

Social Anxiety

Why is social anxiety so common?

Social anxiety disorder is one of the most common mental health disorders in the world today- and rates may be increasing. Recent studies show that rates of diagnosis are increasing each year, and among young adults- for whom social anxiety