I recently lost a friend of mine – 41 years of age. She went to the Doctors on Monday with pains in her abdomen, she was sent home with medication for IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome). By Saturday morning she had died. The circumstances are not the issue, but this...
Stress and Anxiety – A High Price to Pay.
I sat down recently to with a nice cup of tea to read my local paper. I was shocked and saddened from just reading the front page. Two main stories, the first of a mother ‘fearing’ for her child’s life every day they cross the road which is notable a black spot for...
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
Research on the many shades of anxiety disorders, a topic of increasing relevance in today’s race-to-the-finish society, shows that social anxiety disorder is the most prevalent of anxiety issue among adults. The number of sufferers rises every year. This might be...
PTSD – How Bad Can it Get?
This is a question I keep asking myself, particularly every time a PTSD sufferer would come to a TRE session. PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) is something that individuals can develop following an incident that occurs out of the blue and totally overwhelms the...
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Military
A while ago I mentioned a friend whose grandfather had never dealt with the trauma he experienced during the Second World War, and how Post Traumatic Stress Disorder cast a shadow over the rest of his life. This story made me curious about what our servicemen and...
Anxiety is Not a Distinctly British Problem
Anxiety is not a distinctly British problem, but we do seem to have a distinctly British attitude towards avoiding it. Though anxiety levels are higher in Britain than anywhere else in Europe, to talk about our anxieties seems embarrassing, likely to create an...
Stress Release – There is Another Way!
Phew the headlines never stop – we read that ‘Stress adds years to your life’, ‘Stress levels soar in the US in the under 35 year olds’, ‘Stress levels soar as overtime increases in a battle to beat the credit crunch’, ‘Stress DOES have an impact on cancer’. It is...
TRE FOR ANXIETY
Learn to release from the core with a self-help tool for life. Anxiety is when we find ourselves in an ‘uneasy’ place which may have been brought on by a range of situations that leave us in a state of fear or worry. It is a fact of life that we all go through...
Stress Relief Is Like Riding A Bike
You can make the same mistakes in stress relief as many have done after taking up cycling after the UK Olympics. Often when people hear of something new that benefits, heals, loses weight, eases pain and so on they want to jump in feet first and do it straight...
Vicarious Trauma – What We Take On.
When we love or care for someone deeply, our lives may easily get wrapped up in someone else’s experience. Even a little bump or scrape can cause an emotional pang if someone close to us expresses pain. It is no surprise then, if a friend or partner or family member...