If you’re suffering from anxiety, numbing the pain with medication is not always the best solution. Rather than hiding the feelings of worry and dread with a cocktail of pills, surely the answer is to actually deal with what is causing you anxiety in the first place? Of course, you can take medication in the […]

If you hide yourself away at the back of the classroom, in the back of meetings, at the back of the group photos at weddings (if you even make it to the wedding itself that is), you know full well the crippling anxiety that accompanies social situations and how debilitating it can be. You also […]

Do you wake up most mornings with your stomach in knots and before you’ve even rolled out of bed you’ve got the feeling that something terrible’s about to happen? If that sounds like you, you could be among the 3 million people in the UK living with generalised anxiety disorder (GAD). The evolution of anxiety […]

4am is the hour of the over-thinkers. The worriers, the planners, the anxiety, fear-ridden the women just like you, who start every sentence with ‘but what will I do if that happens?’ I would suspect that even if your sleep isn’t disturbed, it’s because you’re just so plain exhausted from your day. You run the […]

That feeling of hot, prickly anger that overwhelms you. Clenched teeth and nails digging into your palms. Anxiety can often trigger debilitating anger. It may be triggered by that insensitive joke. Or remembering how badly you were treated. Or maybe by frustration with yourself. Anxiety gives you that sense of being out of control of […]

Worries, fears and anxieties can affect us all differently. People who experience anxiety problems often want to know ‘why me?’ Research tells us that there are 3 main factors that anxiety – related problems can be linked to; • Environment, level of life stress and available support. • Personality type and childhood experience (learning). • […]