by Nathalie Thompson | mental health, techniques
A few weeks ago I posted a series of articles about stress. The first article talked about how to manage stress, the second article talked about healthy versus not-so-healthy coping strategies, and the third article set out 20 simple strategies for stress relief that...
by Nathalie Thompson | mental health, techniques
Stress may be a fact of life, but we don’t have to let it get the better of us. Constantly allowing ourselves to become frazzled and overwhelmed by life leads to long term mental and physical health issues that we’d all rather avoid, and it causes us to...
by Nathalie Thompson | mental health
For a lot of us, stress has become a way of life, which is unfortunate because long term stress can have a lot of negative effects on both our minds and bodies. Fortunately, it is possible to learn coping strategies for stress that reduce your tension levels and...
by Nathalie Thompson | mental health
The dictionary defines stress as “a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances”. I find this an interesting definition because it so obviously means that stress is a very subjective thing; no two people will...
by Nathalie Thompson | deep thoughts, mental health
Sometimes, in the noisy confusion of life, we find small moments of clarity that help us to understand the patterns we are creating for ourselves. These moments, however, are usually only found in times of silence, stillness and solitude, which may account for why...
