Breathing Techniques for Anxiety
Navigating waves of anxiety, can feel like an uphill battle and the idea of breathing techniques for anxiety that can in any way help, may sound ridiculous. How can something as simple as breathing, calm the persistent unease, the nagging thoughts or the sense of...
Panic Attacks 2: How They Work and How to Beat Them
Panic attacks may seem to come out of nowhere. They may overwhelm you, feel extremely frightening and embarrassing and leave you exhausted and terrified that they will happen again. But there are ways to deal with panic attacks. First of all, it can help to unpack the...
What Is A Panic Attack?
Panic attacks can be very frightening. The heart beat accelerates and sweating and panting are common. You may think you’re about to faint - or even that you’re going to die. Though the exact form differs for everyone, there are four repeated characteristics of panic...
How To Be Resilient
Resilient. It's one of those words which pop up all the time in the virtual space. I’ve mentally bracketed it away with other things like ‘confidence’ or ‘self-esteem’, qualities which we imagine more successful people have been born with, but which we ourselves lack....
The Body Speaks
On my bookshelves is an actor’s manual called ‘The Body Speaks’. In this wonderful book, Lorna Marshall explores, through theatre exercises, how the body mediates human experience. As she says, 'it is our body that climbs the mountain, whispers in another’s ear,...