Panic attacks: How you body can overreact
A panic attack is a specific, intense exaggeration of autonomic arousal, increasing your body’s normal response to fear, stress or excitement. It's an overwhelming build-up of physical symptoms caused by…
What is EMDR?
What Is Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)? Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapy approach developed for working with distressing or traumatic memories. The theory behind EMDR…
Break your unhelpful thinking habit
Negative Thought Challenging Negative thoughts are unhelpful thinking habits which cause feelings such as sadness, anxiety, anger, and hopelessness. Often, we are unaware of our negative thoughts as they occur automatically…
What is PTSD?
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? PTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by traumatic events or situations. Common traumatic events include accidents, disasters, dysfunctional childhoods and verbal or physical abuse.…
Fight or Flight Response
The Fight or Flight ResponseWhen we start to feel fearful, we trigger our fight or flight response from our autonomic nervous system. This is an ancient survival response which evolved for…
Optimism
Choosing Optimism over pessimism In his book Learned Optimism, Martin Seligman focuses on the benefits of optimism and how to become an optimist. His research shows that optimists tend to perform…