Tag: anxiety
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Six Magic Words – The Core Of My Practice
I recently submitted a short story about a very difficult part of my life (link below) and something I used to help me though it. And how this practice informed the whole way I work as a therapist. After I’d written it I thought I’d do a short series on the different modalities that I’ve…
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When Is Stress Actually Good For Us?
Can stress be good for us? Yes, but it’s the type and length of the stress that is important and usually always a physical stressor. I experienced this for myself a few years ago when I decided to take a break from being a therapist and do something completely different. I worked in the North…
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On Making Promo Videos
I’ve recently made a short video as part of the “blurb” about my online course on fatigue. Not pleasant to do. I’m quite comfortable now with making teaching videos and doing a live class on zoom but anything that feels as if I’m selling something is still uncomfortable and feels inauthentic – even though I…
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Feeling Under Pressure?
Are you feeling the pressure of life at the moment? Are you more tired, or stressed or ill, not sleeping well, or, or… My last three posts were about the cosmic reasons for why everything is a little crazy just now and the next few will explore the individual reasons why you may be affected…
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Help and Input Needed!
Yet again I haven’t posted anything for ages. This time it’s because I’ve had a few projects on the go, the main one was the revising of my book, Why Does Stress Make Us Ill? I wanted to add two more chapters and also take into account the impact covid and lockdown has had on…
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Day 8 – The Heart
For more info about the 28 days series please go here https://wordpress.com/post/catherinestrang.com/1455 This post takes 2-3 minutes to read and the meditation is 18 minutes long. Day 8 marks the next section of this series, I’m arranging this series in four sections and each has a new theme, the first 7 days was based on…
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Why Does Stress Make Us Ill?
I have finally completed and published the paperback book!! And my brain is very very tired… Writing the thing was actually quite easy, pleasant even, all the post writing stuff you have to do, not so much. A lot of technical bit’s and pieces, not really difficult in it’s own right, simply tedious and eventually…
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A Strain On The System
The definition of stress is a “strain upon the system”; we talk a lot about stress, usually in the context of how stressed we are with work, family, people, life in general. I sometimes wonder what engineers from over a century ago would think about how we use this word now! Seriously though, stress is…
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Emotional Relief
Many, many years ago, after the breakup of a significant relationship I was cycling home one night trying as usual to suppress the feelings that were there, I remembered what I’d recently been reading in a book called “Emotional Clearing. In this book the author outlined a very simple way to let go of whatever…
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A Calm, Quiet Mind
Some suggestions and a meditation I have recorded for calming the mind We are in our third month of lockdown now and no doubt there are many concerns about how much longer does this go on, what happens when it ends, what are the consequences post lock down for a world that has come to…
Catherine Strang 