Blog

 

This is a space where I will share my current thoughts, so if you’re interested, feel free to give them a read, share or comment.

I hope that you can resonate with some of it on your personal journey.

Anxiety and health conditions

Anxiety can be defined as a feeling of fear, dread, and uneasiness in relation to a future event perceived as a threat. Some examples of anxiety are health, performance and social. It is estimated that in the UK alone, over...
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Burnout: My personal story

In 500 words I have written my personal experience and my aims as a mental health sport therapist. The year is 2009, I’m 16 years old and had moved into my final two years at school, the academic pressure was...
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People pleasing

Signs, impacts, origins and strategies This topic is one that resonates with me after having therapy myself for people pleasing. I had to learn how to create boundaries and overcome my anxiety around people’s opinions of me. Read on to...
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Therapy FAQs

I understand that a lot of questions can arise in relation to having therapy, both prior to starting and what to expect from subsequent sessions. I hope this blog will help to answer some of those, make you feel more...
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New year, improved you

I always like to view ourselves as a work in progress. I always follow the saying, "progress not perfection", this way, even the smallest changes that we make are meaningful. As a new year commences it is only natural to...
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It’s the season to be jolly…

This season brings happiness and warmth into many households, yet, this time of year comes with it’s own challenges. I would like to highlight a couple of these challenges and how best to deal with these. Extra load I don’t...
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The Therapeutic Relationship

A therapeutic relationship is like any other relationship with trust being at its core. If you asked a group of people what trust meant to them, you would likely get a different response from each.  So I want to make...
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A message for athletes

Sport. Athletes. Elite athletes. Champions. Human beings. Mental health. Performance anxiety. Emotions. Human beings. Self-identity and self-worth. SUPPORT IS KEY. I feel as though I could stop this blog here, in less than twenty words I have written my key...
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It’s your reality that matters

On October 4th, here in Sweden, we celebrated 'cinnamon roll day', a sweet pastry that has been marked in the Swedish calendar since 1999. I lost count of the number of posts I saw on social media of delicious looking...
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Our happily ever after

Therapeutic Coaching for me can be likened to someone drawing back the curtains  in a dark room. This type of therapy helped me enormously in my recovery from  Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and since then anxiety-related issues. This integrative  therapy is...
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