Tag: mental-health
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Perfectionism: Life’s Toxic Trap
If you are like me, you grew up in the generation of millennials and not far behind Gen X, where neoliberalism was in full swing forcing us to be more competitive with our neighbours and become more and more individualistic. An era of drawing inside the lines within your copy book with perfect joint writing,…
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The Advantage Of Adversity
For most of your life, you’ve assumed most things follow a linear or straight forward order. The steps of the stairs, counting to ten, the alphabet and even the aisles in a supermarket. All this arrangement of structure within our day-to-day lives, fools you into thinking that your life follows a structured order. We use…
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The Fear Of Letting Go
We can all relate to the feeling of worry and anxiety taking hold over our chest or stomach as a result of a situation that has happened in the past and/or may happen in the future. These thoughts go around and around your mind as the emotions grip tighter and tighter around your lungs, sometimes…
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The Balancing Act Called Living
Life is one big balancing act of the good, bad and indifferent. No one is happy all the time and no one can be sad all of the time. It is somewhere in the middle where things all balance out over the span of time. I am not saying you don’t have pockets or periods…
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Mental Health & Wellbeing: The What, The Why And The How
I’m sure we are all very familiar with the ever growing narrative around “mental health and wellbeing”. Thankfully it is becoming more and more normalised in most countries. This concept is gaining traction of importance relative to other health modalities and while this topic has been close to my heart for many years, I found…
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