Commit a random act of kindness – Have a look at this video and it may inspire you..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Qc8ZbVcdHpg
Counselling & Psychotherapy
Tips on self care coming up to Christmas – Tip Five:
This may sound ridiculously simple but here it is: Get sleep.
Particularly coming up to Christmas, we are stressed, or excited, and may be socialising more. And often, sleep suffers. And remember – alcohol interferes with sleep – it does NOT enhance it, and it IS a depressant. (Those of you who have woken up in the horrors and had a ‘down’ day after a ‘great’ night will know this).
Mind your mood.
Tips on self care coming up to Christmas – Tip Four:
Tips on self care coming up to Christmas – Tip Three:
Take a minute right NOW to do NOTHING: take 3 slow, deep, to your tummy breathes, feel the chair under you, the ground under your feet, hear the sounds around you, feel the clothes on your skin, be aware of what smells are around you.
Listen to your inner dialogue: how much pressure have you put yourself under? How many rules and demands have you made of yourself for Christmas? Would you make these same demands of your best friend??Write down what you expect of yourself, then cross off the unreasonable and unnecessary items, the ‘shoulds’, and marvel at how few are left:)
Remember to breathe during today – just remind yourself, and you’ll soothe yourself nicely.
The Root of Violent Behaviour
While listening to Neil Prendeville on 96FM, I caught part of a discussion on the rate of violence on Cork’s streets. There is a general need to assign blame for escalating violence. Scapegoats ranged from “drink and drugs” to “nightclubs”.
Region is to get its first Counselling Psychologist
Well here’s a blast from the past! Routing through my old (OOOLLLD) posts I found this piece by Colette Keane in the Examiner entitled: Region is to get its first Counselling Psychologist (and that was me – nearly twenty years ago!! #eek)