Tag: emotional health
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Why a Day at the Beach is Good for your Mental Health
Do you love the beach and instantly feel more relaxed and at peace by the sea? If so, you’re certainly not alone. In fact, being by the water is beneficial to our physical and mental health in numerous ways. In an interview with The Guardian, Dr Mathew White, an environmental psychologist, said the sea has…
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The Importance of Self-Love
When we talk about self-love these days we often equate this with treating ourselves to something, pampering ourselves or doing some other superficial form of care. Whilst these things can temporarily make us feel better they cannot in the long term heal those places where we do not love ourselves. People often come into counselling or psychotherapy because…
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Is Modern Technology Damaging Our Health?
Why do we have an epidemic of mental illness?Why is our NHS under impossible demand from the sick?Why are we a nation of sick people when we invest so much in healthcare? We have come to believe that modern technology has been a boon to mankind and has made life better, simpler, happier, and easier.…
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Why do I have mixed feelings about coming out of lockdown?
I have had two competing responses to the idea of getting back to normality, since Boris Johnson announced the roadmap plans to ease lockdown. Part of me is desperate to have freedom and choice, to be able to see the people I love and to hug them again. More surprisingly perhaps, part of me doesn’t…
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Wake up! What are your emotions really telling you?
Several years ago, I had a spiritual revelation four days into an intense silent retreat deep in the Spanish countryside. I was shown the difference between who I thought I was and who I really am. I was transported to the depths of my being, shown the reason for my own pain and witnessed the…
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Embracing and understanding our emotions
Each day we experience a whole plethora of different emotions, and in these confusing times as we transition out of lockdown, we may well be experiencing an intensified range. Some of our emotions may feel good and some not so, but whatever we may think about them all emotions are valid and useful. Emotions are…
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How to look after your emotional health during Coronavirus
We are all currently experiencing highly unnerving times, during which we are likely to be worried about our own and our loved ones’ safety, whilst also feeling physically and financially challenged. Our mental – and physical – health depends upon meeting our emotional needs in healthy ways. This helps keep stress levels low and allows…