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Dealing with the long-term effects of childhood bullying

The effects of childhood bullying can be devastating and without interventions can extend into adulthood. Let’s first understand bullying as aggressive behaviour or intentional harm-doing by peers that is carried out repeatedly and involves an imbalance of power.

What are unhelpful thinking styles?

When we experience unhelpful emotions like depression or anxiety it is often followed by unhelpful thoughts. There is usually a theme to these unhelpful thoughts and we call them unhelpful thinking styles.

Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life.

The term Ikigai came from a Japanese concept which translates roughly as "the happiness of always being busy" (Garcia and Miralles, 2017). If we attempt to translate this in English, the closest term perhaps would be "purpose".

The connection between mental health issues and your gut health.

A troubled brain sends signals to the gut and a troubled gut sends signals to the brain. For example, when feeling stressed, anxious, depressed this can trigger physical symptoms in the gut.

What is anger and how to convert unhealthy anger to healthy anger

Anger is a natural emotion that we all experience from time to time (especially the toddler throwing a tantrum at the shops). But what is anger and how to do we manage such a big emotion that can have destructive consequences.

Neuroplasticity and overcoming the effects of childhood trauma with mindfulness

Experiencing childhood trauma affects people emotionally and the long-term effects can develop into disorders such as; depression, anxiety, suicidal behaviours, Post-traumatic stress disorder, anti-social behaviour, Borderline personality and dissociative disorders.