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5th February 2020 Lindsay Cox-Prior

Time to Talk

6 February is the annual Time to Talk day, where the organisation Time to Change encourages mental health to be spoken about openly and transparently, in an attempt to knock down the walls surrounding mental health stigma. I’d like to focus on it...

28th January 2020 Lindsay Cox-Prior

Sleep

Sleep can cause mental health problems, and mental health problems can cause sleep disturbances; reading this highlights a vicious circle and that the need for us to self-care couldn’t be clearer. Benefits of quality sleep: Improved daily...

21st January 2020 Lindsay Cox-Prior

First Impressions

I come to write this today off the back of a client review session, where although I’m changing the phrasing, I was told I’d been written off before I’d even been met by said client. This was less to do with my abilities, the counselling setting...

14th January 2020 Lindsay Cox-Prior

Social Anxiety

We can sometimes be uncomfortable in social situations, whether it’s in a large group, people we don’t know, starting a new job, dating or being introduced to a friend’s friend. Sometimes it’s down to how we feel that day, what’s going on for us...

6th January 2020 Lindsay Cox-Prior

Out of office notice

I hope you all had a well-deserved break over Christmas and New Year. I wish you the best for 2020 and I hope that your self-care continues. With this in mind, please note that the service will be closed 7 January 2020 until 12 January 2020...

2nd January 2020 Lindsay Cox-Prior

Mastery- be an expert on You

Over the last 3 weeks I’ve broken down the PROM model in my blogs. Mastery is about becoming an expert and honing your skills in that field. The field is You. By previously engaging with purpose, responsibility and optimism you’ve begun to become...

24th December 2019 Lindsay Cox-Prior

Optimism

Optimism combines the element of hope with the notion that it’s the best world that we can access right now; so straight away there is some balance between hope and acceptance of what is, which pessimists don’t tend to consider. Studies have...

17th December 2019 Lindsay Cox-Prior

Responsibility

Last week I spoke about the PROM model for action against anxiety; specifically looking at Purpose. I’m moving on to Responsibility today: the ability to respond, a choice of response, the duty to deal with something or take control, of being...

11th December 2019 Lindsay Cox-Prior

Purpose

I’ve been reading more and more on anxiety as increasingly this is the main concern for most clients walking through the door at the moment. I blogged last week about the need for self-care at this time of year (and arguably all year round!) but...

4th December 2019 Lindsay Cox-Prior

Self-care over Christmas

There will be plenty published about the joys of Christmas at this time of year and how family time becomes more important, giving is better than receiving and how being able to indulge in fine food and drink becomes an acceptable autopilot. It...

26th November 2019 Lindsay Cox-Prior

What’s your story?

I stumbled over giving my maiden name the other day; funny how it took so long to adapt to my married name and now my maiden name is slowly becoming alien to me. I’d bumped into a teacher from about 19 years ago; he recalled a relative rather...

19th November 2019 Lindsay Cox-Prior

Mindful walking

At this time of year you hear a lot about SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), low moods, the anticipation of Christmas and the positives and negatives that the festive season can bring. It’s a time of expectation and that can weigh heavy on our...