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Self-Care For The Silly Season

I don’t know about you but I’m finding it hard to believe that Christmas is only 5 days away. December always seems to disappear in a haze of end-of-year deadlines and festive activities.

As much as I love Christmas and the holidays, I always look forward to New Year more. Partly because of the ‘clean slate’ atmosphere (I just love that new-exercise-book, back-to-school feeling) but also partly because it means the ‘silly season’ is over for another year.

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6 Positive Thinking Tools You Can Use Now

What are you thinking right now? Stop for a moment and consciously listen to the thoughts inside your head… What

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Mind-Body Practices Best At Reducing Stress

Ever watched someone practising meditation and thought: I wish I could do that but I couldn’t sit still or stop thinking

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Is Chronic Stress Taking Over Your Life? 10 Ways To Activate Your Relaxation Response

Stress: A pesky little word that gets tossed around a great deal in modern day life. We stress about things; we feel stressed by commitments; and people or situations stress us out! So do you understand stress, and more importantly, how it affects your body?

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How Meditation Changed My Life

For 18 years as I struggled through Bulimia Nervosa, meditation proved useful in picking up the pieces. It gave me hope and confidence that one day I would make it through and be living the life I was creating in my mind – once I overcame the underlying beliefs that kept me stuck.It took many years to challenge and change the negative mental programming and take responsibility for my own thoughts, but meditation was instrumental in giving me the time and space I needed to explore, sit, breathe and listen – to find my own authentic voice. Meditation comforted me through many dark times of feeling rejected, vulnerable, struggling with self-worth and losing my identity in the desire to please others.

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