mental well-being

How to Overcome Burnout: Reclaiming Your Energy and Enthusiasm

by John Nolan
15th March 202527th March 2025

To overcome burnout, it is essential to first recognise the signs of emotional and physical exhaustion caused by prolonged stress. Taking proactive steps focused on self-care, setting healthy boundaries, managing time effectively, and cultivating gratitude are crucial. Reconnecting with your passions, practising mindfulness and relaxation techniques, and seeking support from others can further aid in the recovery process. Creating clear transitions between work and personal life and treating yourself with patience and kindness are also vital aspects of learning how to overcome burnout.

Achieving Anxiety Freedom: Reclaiming Your Life

by John Nolan
14th March 2025

Anxiety freedom is not about eradicating anxiety entirely but about transforming your relationship with it so that it no longer governs your life. It is the capacity to live a life aligned with your values and pursue your goals despite the presence of anxious feelings. Achieving anxiety freedom is a personal journey that involves understanding the nature of anxiety, accepting anxious experiences rather than resisting them, cultivating present moment awareness through mindfulness, challenging negative thought patterns, and shifting focus towards personally meaningful actions. Intentional exposure to anxiety triggers, practising self-compassion, and letting go of the need to control anxiety are crucial steps in this process. Building resilience through healthy lifestyle choices and seeking supportive connections further empowers individuals on their path to anxiety freedom. Ultimately, anxiety freedom means that while anxiety may still visit, it no longer holds the power to prevent you from living a full and meaningful life.

Supporting Wellbeing: Coaching for Stress Management at Work1st April 2025
Coaching for stress management at work is a collaborative process focused on helping individuals within a professional context to better understand and handle workplace pressures. It involves techniques like solution-focused questioning, exploring past successes, developing coping skills, and setting boundaries to enhance wellbeing and performance.
Coaching Beyond the Shadows: Embracing a Future-Oriented Path from Depression1st April 2025
Depression coaching centres on empowering individuals to move beyond current difficulties by focusing on their strengths and future aspirations. Key principles include fostering hope, leveraging strengths, setting achievable goals aligned with values, and cultivating acceptance. A future-oriented approach proves particularly effective by shifting focus from problems to possibilities, generating hope and motivation, creating clear goals, breaking rumination cycles, empowering agency, and building resilience. By illuminating a path forward, depression coaching supports individuals in actively creating the fulfilling lives they desire.
Sensory Pathways to Healing: The Rise and Integration of Psychosensory Therapy31st March 2025
Psychosensory therapy, with origins in traditional practices and modern neuroscience, is increasingly effective in mental health by directly influencing neurobiological states through sensory input. Techniques like Havening, EFT, and EMDR target the amygdala and can facilitate the processing of trauma and reduce anxiety. These therapies offer rapid, gentle, and empowering approaches for issues such as panic attacks, phobias, PTSD, chronic pain, and addictions. Psychosensory therapy integrates well with future-oriented modalities like SFBT, coaching, and NLP by quickly reducing distress, fostering self-empowerment, and creating a more receptive state for change and goal achievement.
Embracing Experience: Understanding and Moving Beyond Avoidance30th March 2025
Experiential avoidance, the attempt to evade unwanted inner experiences, plays a significant role in various mental health challenges, including anxiety, depression, stress, and trauma, leading to restricted lives and intensified distress. Overcoming this pattern involves cultivating awareness, acceptance, willingness, cognitive defusion, present moment contact, value clarification, gradual exposure, and self-compassion, enabling individuals to engage with a full range of experiences and move towards a more fulfilling life.
Steps to Overcoming Dread: Calming Your Mind and Building Resilience with Self-Help Techniques29th March 2025
Feelings of dread often involve activation of the brain's threat system (amygdala) and an overwhelmed cortex, accompanied by negative thinking patterns, anticipation of threat, and negative self-talk. To overcome dread, techniques such as CPR for the Amygdala (combining self-havening and brain games), self-havening alone, challenging negative self-talk, practising mindfulness and acceptance, focusing on solutions, ACT-based defusion, applied relaxation (breathing), cultivating self-compassion, and the LLAMP approach can be effective. These methods work by calming the nervous system, redirecting attention, creating psychological distance from negative thoughts, promoting self-acceptance, and shifting focus towards positive possibilities and values. Consistent practice and patience are key to building resilience and reducing the impact of dread.