Category: Anxiety
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Anxiety, Anger, Control and Peace
We humans often worry about bad things happening. We experience anxiety, depression, and anger symptoms and our behaviour will be such to try to avoid the bad thing or change the bad thing. We may fret about another person’s health, about an earthquake hitting, or about an annoying co-worker or work policy. All these things…
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How To Change Beliefs that Aren’t Working for You
How to Change Beliefs that Aren’t Working for You Often clients come to counselling with symptoms of depression, anxiety, and disordered eating. As we work together to understand what underlies the symptoms, we often discover simple and basically untrue beliefs. These beliefs were developed when they were younger (often as young as 3 years old)…
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Meditation, Creativity and “Flow”
I have been blessed with creative people in my life — writers, artists, performers, crafters, and poets. I truly feel blessed. I myself have enjoyed making things like couch covers, drapes, cushions, fashions, crafts, and watercolour paintings. When “making things” we can enter a meditative state or “flow”, or a Zen state of just being. …