Month: January 2022

Children stress management

What children can teach us about stress management

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I was recently thinking about what we mean when we say the word ‘childlike’. Wonder and curiosity, or a tendency to become hijacked by strong, poorly understood emotions? While the latter may be the case children also tend to be more in tune with their bodies and their ‘felt sense’ (Levine, 1997) than adults. As …

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Hypochondria – understand your fear of diseases

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Illness anxiety disorder, sometimes called hypochondriasis or health anxiety, is worrying excessively that you are or may become seriously ill. You may have no physical symptoms. Or you may believe that normal body sensations or minor symptoms are signs of severe illness, even though a thorough medical exam doesn’t reveal a serious medical condition. You …

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