The pressure to meet year-end targets, finish projects, and manage personal and professional obligations can become overwhelming. Let’s chunk down 3 key tips for effectively managing end of year stress.

Grief can have a big impact on holiday times and special occasions, especially in the first year following your loss.

Disenfranchised grief is a term used to describe the unique pain that arises when society doesn’t acknowledge or validate a particular loss.

There is no one way to grieve. Tonkin’s model of grief helps us to understand how we can continue to grow around our grief.

If you’re navigating grief, there are some evolving ideas around the stages of grief and how we heal, that you may find supportive.

Robert Neimeyer's meaning-making model of grief, and the Dual Process Model.

Exploring 4 Models: The Tasks of Morning, Growing around Grief, Making Meaning & The Stages of Grief

Journalling can be a supportive and therapeutic way to engage in personal development and self-therapy…

Different examples of journalling styles, including stream of consciousness and letter to self journalling.

Some prompts to support you as you establish your own journalling practice. 

I will sometimes offer journalling to clients who resonate with writing, as a complementary activity alongside therapy. By writing down our thoughts and emotional experiences, we can ‘externalise’ them (get them out of our heads and out into the world).

Emotions come and go throughout the day, like traffic along a street. Sometimes though, an emotion sticks with us and may feel so intense we start to look for ways to manage or control it. This is where Emotion Regulation can help. 

Discover the power of self-care and download my free 'My Self Care Reminders' template to create your personalised plan.

We all experience anxious feelings at some point in our lives - these are a natural body response that can help us to stay safe and alert. However, when anxiety becomes overwhelming and persistent, it can significantly impact day-to-day life and our overall wellbeing. 

Have you heard of Shibashi and its benefits? Join me in practicing these sets of exercises on YouTube, with videos from 5-10 minutes. Give it a go, and let me know your experience.