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February 12, 2023

Apps for your Mental Wellbeing

Apps for your Mental Wellbeing – over the past couple of weeks I have been trying out different apps that you can download to your phone that may be useful in supporting your mental and emotional wellbeing. Most of the
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February 5, 2023

Cultivating a Practice of Silence in your Daily Life

Cultivating a Practice of Silence in your Daily Life – In our last blog Silence and your health, we explored the benefits of silence on our physical and mental health, we noted that constant noise could affect our concentration, productivity,
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February 5, 2023

Silence and Your Health

Silence and your Health – have you ever been driving somewhere in your car and got lost and felt the need to turn down your car’s radio? As though turning it down will help you to see where you need
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January 21, 2023

Trans awareness for therapists part one and part two CPD

Trans awareness for therapists part one and part two – Counselling colleague Sam Hope is running some CPD workshops on trans awareness for therapists in the early part of this year. This blog tells you a little more about the workshops
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January 14, 2023

Better Sleep, Better Mental Health

Better Sleep, Better Mental Health – We all know what it is like when we have had a bad night’s sleep. We can feel sluggish, headachy and lethargic. We can struggle to concentrate and find ourselves finding it difficult to
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January 9, 2023

Family Conflict and Counselling

Family Conflict and Counselling – we have all just gone through the holiday period where we have spent periods of time with family. Some family we might only see once or twice a year others we may see all the
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January 3, 2023

Therapy, EMDR and Clinical Supervision in the West Midlands

Therapy, EMDR and Clinical Supervision in the West Midlands, is continuing to be offered by Paul Carter in 2023. Paul Carter is continuing to offer support online and on the telephone. Below is an overview of the services Paul offers
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December 19, 2022

The Practice of Winter Rest

The Practice of Winter Rest. In difficult and hostile times rest and retreat can be beneficial for our emotional and mental wellbeing. We live in a culture that prizes productivity, being always available, online and responsive. A culture where if
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December 10, 2022

Stress at Christmas – 3 tips to manage the festive season

Stress at Christmas – 3 tips to manage the festive season. Christmas and the Christmas season can be a very stressful time of year for lots of different reasons. It is a time of year that is already difficult, the
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December 4, 2022

National Grief Awareness Week

National Grief Awareness Week is between 2nd and 8 December 2022. It is organized by the Good Grief Trust to raise awareness of the impact of grief, how we cope with grief and the organisations in the UK that are
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