Staying Calm
Discover calming techniques, stress-reduction strategies, and mindfulness practices for greater peace and wellbeing.
Aromatherapy: Can Scents Affect Your Mood?
Aromatherapy is one of those things that you don’t think should work – until you really think about it. Scent and our sense of smell is very powerful in...
De-clutter Your Home
If you’ve lived in your home for any amount of time, you probably have cupboards and drawers full of things that you keep ‘just in case’ or for ‘sent...
Diy Stress Reduction Techniques: Interview With a Counsellor
Counsellor Linda Helm-Manley experienced counselling herself - she went in with the attitude "a stranger can't help me." She realised immediately how wrong s...
Exercise Can Reduce Stress at Home
When you are feeling stressed at home the last thing you feel like doing is exercising – but according to the experts it could well be worth pulling on you...
Holidays and Days Out
When it comes to school holidays and weekends, there can seem to be a lot of time to fill, and if you have no ideas about what to do or where to take the kid...
How Does Feng Shui Work?
Most people have heard of Feng shui, but don’t really know about how to use it in a practical way to get the most out of their living space. Put simply, it...
How to Deal With Arguments
Our families are the people who are closest to us...unfortunately, much as we love them, this also means that they know exactly how to push our buttons and w...
How to Find Time for Yourself: Interview With a Counsellor
Beverley Cooke, who runs private counselling practice in Hornchurch, was motivated to become a counsellor through a personal tragedy that happened 19 years a...
How to Prevent an Argument: Interview With a Psychologist
Graham Allen was always fascinated by different personalities and also had his own battles with anxiety as a youngster. Today he has a degree in Psychology a...
Shared Interests and Hobbies
When you read articles about what keeps a family and a relationship fresh, one of the old favourites seems to be ‘finding shared interests’ or ‘having...
Unusual Activities to Help Alleviate Stress Levels
There are all sorts of ways of tackling stress and sometimes it is a case of attempting to do several things at one time. Taking part in an unusual activity...