Most people have a handful of dreams during the night, usually lasting from 5 – 30 mins each. Dreams mostly occur during the lighter REM sleep stage, and whilst we may recall some dreams, we forget most of them altogether within minutes of them being over. Dreams that...
Eating disorders are a psychological obsession that affects either the relationship with food consumption and/or the attitude to body composition (weight & shape) and entail overeating or food restriction to purging processes like vomiting and over-exercising....
Everybody loves the feeling of achievement. When we achieve something we feel an element of success and our confidence gets a boost too. Some things are easier to achieve than others. The more difficult or more meaningful an achievement, the more intense the positive...
Every once in a while we all get a bad night’s sleep. Maybe due to something we ate, maybe we drank too much, or maybe the weather was too hot. As you know, a bad night’s sleep usually follows through to a bad next day; as we feel groggy and are not as energised as we...
If we think about it, learning is one thing that every single one of us participates in – as it is a paramount part of how we survive as infants. Generally we learn by copying our parents or guardians as they instruct us. Most of this is generally delivered in a...
At some stage in our life we are all faced with the concept of loss and the pain of the grief that is attached to it. Some of us experience a traumatic loss in childhood, some do not, and some do not experience a severe loss until well into their adult years. If we...
When we consider the title of ‘moving on’ the initial thought is that of moving on in life, usually away from a previous relationship. Whereas this is certainly the most common concept of moving on that I experience in my coaching practise – it is by no means the only...
Mother Nature is the boss of all bosses and when she decides to take action, nothing can stop her in her tracks. There are many religious and spiritual theories on why she chooses to ‘act upon us’, but that is not the scope of this article. This article is to...
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a condition that affects all walks of life in all age groups, although the disorder is most commonly developed during earlier years. OCD is quite often related to depression and/or anxiety, eating disorders, and some addictions. The...
