Balancing the Scales of Human Emotion
The way in which we react to our own negative emotions is a key component of good mental health.
A Time for Renewed Focus
In the closing stages of 2021, I started to notice some old habits creeping in. Or should that be, I’d noticed a tailing off of the new habits I had developed that were previously bringing me emotional stability. Meditation had dropped by the wayside, to the point that I hardly practiced at all, and I […]
Values and Beliefs: Part 2
Welcome back… This is part 2 of my articles on how and why uncovering your core values and beliefs is a must if you are serious about improving the quality of your mental health. In part 1 I outlined what establishing your core values and beliefs can do for you. In this article, I will […]
Start Here – Why You Need to Establish Your Values and Beliefs: Part 1
Put simply your values and beliefs are a list of the statements/actions/intentions that you see as most important to you.
The Lost Art of Not Being Offended
Dealing with insults is something we all have to do from time to time, whether intended or perceived. But it is something that, as a whole, we seem to be getting worse at. Many people seem to be woefully unequipped to handle criticism, constructive or otherwise. The following passage is from “The Stoic Guide to […]
What I Wish I’d Known About Antidepressants
In 2018 a serious relationship breakdown smashed head first into an existential/midlife crisis, which then careered into the path of an underlying anxiety problem. What crawled from the wreckage was a fairly broken shell of a human, pretty close to breaking. It was at this point I went to my GP and reluctantly asked to […]
Understanding Your Personality
Ever since the existential crisis that felled me in the first half of 2018, I have gratefully accepted any opportunity to discover it’s cause. A series of events had led me to a precipice of negative emotion. A precipice that appeared, at times, to have only one way down. Thankfully I didn’t have the means […]