Panic attacks are the definition of not having our feet on the ground! During an attack we need a grounding technique for panic attacks. Our body's alarm system has kicked into overdrive and our senses are overwhelmed by our sense of danger. We often lose our heads in...

At the root of the emotional reasoning distortion is the belief that what we feel must be true. If we feel like a loser, then we must be a loser. If we feel guilty, then we must have done something wrong. If we feel ugly, then we must be ugly. If we feel angry,...

Being anxious and not sleeping well are very closely linked. Our bodies are telling us to shut down but our brains just won´t let us. When we do finally fall asleep it’s a fitful, uneasy sleep or we are woken up easily. This blog explores the connection between...

Seeing things our own way is generally always where we start to look at interactions with other humans. We see come from our own point of views and then perhaps attempt to reach a middle ground, or we can stick to our guns when we know what we are seeing isn’t right....

Control Fallacies: The idea of being helpless or responsible for our lives are very important narrative elements in all our lives, as is our sense of cause and affect. Wanting to know what causes things to happen to us and around us is a very human thing and it can...

Why do we worry about work the night before we go in? When we go to work things tend to work out fine. We know this because we still have a job, yet our worry about work can be toxic. In times when we know trouble is going on at work, sure we worry. Yet, very often we...

Personalization: "Everyone thinks this is my fault!", "He said he was still hungry, I must be an awful cook and a failure", "Compared to my friends, I am going nowhere in life". Personalization is the tendency to relate everything around us back to ourselves. This...

Secret signs of anxiety part five: Today’s topics: Anxiety when he/she is not texting us back In today’s age of digital interactions we have all experienced a partner, a spouse or even just a potential love interest not texting us back as fast as we’d like. The worry...

Secret signs of anxiety part four: Today’s topics: Over-reliance on Doctor Google Is my headache a brain tumour? What does this dot on my skin mean? I feel funny today… is this feeling normal for someone age? How do I check without going to the doctor? Doctor Google...

Secret signs of anxiety: part three Today’s anxiety topic: compulsive double checking. Check one more time I sent that email, check again the house is locked. Did I turn off the oven? The work alarm is it on? Sound familiar? In this third blog of the series we are...