Tag: anxiety

  • Focus on What’s in Your Boat

    Focus on What’s in Your Boat

    This article was written back in May…but as so often happens, it’s just as relevant now! How’s it going? How are you doing? Are you calm, relaxed, dancing easily with life even though the music is new and different? Or are you in a heightened state of alarm and stress, wondering what the actual fuck…

  • Feel how you feel

    Feel how you feel

    How are you doing my friend? How is the C word affecting you? In chatting with friends and family, we’re going through lots of feelings! Stress, panic, fear, anxiety, irrationality, irritability, tears, hysteria, paranoia, anger…. And for many of us, we’re shocked by how much we’re feeling, or we didn’t expect it to affect us…

  • Menu of helpful things for anxiety and catastrophising

    Menu of helpful things for anxiety and catastrophising

    When I’m not well, or in turbulent times, I get anxious. When I’m tired, or in turbulent times, I catastrophise. Right now, I’m noticing a spike in my anxiety and catastrophising (wonder why???). But it’s all good because I have ways I deal with the eeks and omg’s and what if’s. Here’s my menu of…

  • Moving From Anxious Jelly on a Plane to Being a More Confident Traveller

    Moving From Anxious Jelly on a Plane to Being a More Confident Traveller

    Here’s something you may not know about me: now and again I get quite bad anxiety. Not “can’t leave the house, too terrified” anxiety, more “the plane will crash, bad things will happen” anxiety. By nature, I’m not really an anxious person, so when these thoughts come, they tend to kick my ass because I’m…

  • Announcing the September Daily Practice: Feel How You Feel

    This practice, may, at first look, seem a bit of an odd one. After all, how can you feel anything other than what you feel? But so often, we do not allow ourselves to feel how we feel – either because the emotion is a ‘bad’ one, or because there’s no point feeling joyful because…

  • OnTheBeach – Will This Still Matter Tomorrow?

    A note from Donna Since the gig I went to last Tuesday, my throat has been playing up and my voice has run the range between Minnie Mouse and that woman with a husky, low, smoker’s voice off Coronation Street of 20 years ago – can’t remember her name! I was listening to the messages…