Self Care

Please find below our recent blog posts tagged under the category 'Self Care'...

• Celebrating the season
  02/11/2023

  Channeling autumn’s slower energy can herald another beautiful revolution in your ever-changing year…

• Milestone moments of change
  31/10/2023

  Barbara Morgan, a Gestalt psychotherapist & Family Constellations practitioner in our Bath and Islington centres, shares how bringing ritual to the big moments in her life has helped her both define and embrace them…
  

• Three simple steps for navigating change
  02/10/2023

  Counsellor Kate Ashley, from our Bristol centres, offers a gentle guide to supporting yourself during times of transition...
  

• September: the month of change
  06/09/2023

  This is the season of shifting sands and new things. Helen Gormley, who offers coaching and therapy in Bath, shares some simple ways to cope with the transition…
  

• Love your liver
  07/02/2023

  Many people are aware that the liver has some role to play in detoxification, but did you know that a thousand or more different activities have been associated with this vital organ, explains Dr Amanda Frescura.
  

• Coping with complex family dynamics
  20/12/2022

  The societal and financial expectation to make Christmas special can end up with a pressure cooker bubbling to boiling point over the Christmas season, says Dr Rachel Adams, a counselling psychologist at our Exeter centre, as she shares some suggestions for a more harmonious holiday...
  

• What can we do differently?
  19/12/2022

  We are told every year that Christmas is a time for family. But what if family time brings about challenging dynamics that activate all your triggers and learned behaviours?  Daiga Osina, a clinical hypnotherapist from our Bristol centre, suggests some ways to support yourself during difficult social situations…
  

• Taking care
  16/12/2022

  In this season of frivolity, Lenny Marlow who practises homoeopathy at our Greenwich centre, reflects on the past couple of years, and reminds us that it is also a season of vulnerability, nostalgia and change. Take time to go gently with yourself this Christmas…
  

• A More Mindful Christmas
  14/12/2022

  For the eco-conscious amongst us, Christmas brings eco-anxiety more than ever. Abi Saunders, a counsellor from our Hove centre, shares a few simple ideas to help us be more mindful of the environmental impact of this time of year...  
  

• A Christmas Meditation
  12/12/2022

  This simple and gentle meditation offers an easy way to reconnect with yourself during the busy festive season. Sit somewhere warm and quiet, place your hand on your heart, and feel yourself fall into that place of safety...

• The Hush Descends
  05/12/2022

  So much of our lives is loud and lit up with ‘things’. We avoid going into the dark because we are afraid of what we’ll find there, we avoid the silence because our feelings are too loud. But we need to trust that we can go into the dark and have the resilience to meet what truths we find there, says Emma Johnson 

• Preparing body, and mind, for winter
  30/11/2022

  Winter is a time to nourish ourselves and rest, both physically and mentally, says Dr Maria Amasanti from our Islington centre
  

• Winter is coming
  22/11/2022

  Winter has a bad reputation, but it’s time to think differently, says Elizabeth Thompson from NCIM, as she offers some advice for a whole-body approach to preparing for winter...
  

   

• I am who I am
  14/11/2022

  People are quick to play the blame game, especially when faced with challenges. I find it helpful to remind myself that I am the sum of every moment that I have ever lived, and this helps provide a little perspective, says Omar Sattur.

• The Ego
  07/02/2022

  Psychotherapist Isabell Thomas shares her poem about the Ego.

• 10 Daily Affirmations for Self Love
  22/03/2021

  Life Coach, Caroline Rushforth, shares 10 daily affirmations to help self love.

• Metamorphosis
  25/01/2021

  New Practice Manager, Stephen Holmes, reflects on the New Year, embracing the darkness we're faced with, and emerging stronger from it.

• A Change for the Better
  20/01/2021

  Dianne Hancock explores the use of The Feldenkrais Method to help identity limiting habits and create change.

• Top 5 Nutrition & Lifestyle Tips to Strengthen Your Immune System in 2021
  06/01/2021

  Nutritional Therapist and Health Coach Karina Smith-Reyes gives her top 5 nutrition & lifestyle tips to strengthen your immune system this year.

• Facing up to addiction with solution-focused hypnotherapy
  07/10/2020

  Jon Creffield explores addiction and how solution focused hypnotherapy can help.

• The Breath
  24/09/2020

  Emma Cayless reflects on her experience of true mind-body connection through meditation and the breath.

• Happiness through Body and Mind
  18/09/2020

  Psychotherapist Sonja Anthony looks at finding happiness through body and mind.

• Holistic Health
  14/09/2020

  Susan Lacroix looks at holistic health and ways of helping ourselves.
  

• Mind and Body: What's the connection?
  11/09/2020

  Psychotherapist, Hermione Brown, explores our mind - body connection and how we can listen to our bodies to gain insight into our stresses and troubles.
  

• The Brain-Gut Connection: IBS and Hypnotherapy
  01/09/2020

  This month's focus is on the mind-body connection and holistic healing. Daniel Kronenberg starts us off with his blog on IBS and Hypnotherapy.

• Parenting Yourself
  21/08/2020

  Holistic Hypnotherapist Melody May explores the importance of parenting yourself as well as your children.
  

• Self care: a path to reach your dreams
  13/05/2020

  A how guide on using self care to manifest your hearts desires by our therapist Laura Cocconi, a holistic therapist based in Hove. 
  

• Lessons from Covid-19: how to stay sane in self-isolation
  30/03/2020

  Some simple tips from Ana, a psychotherapist in Hove about how to care for our mental health whilst isolated.