Category: Self Help Resources
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How To Stop Procrastinating When You Are Anxious
Many people, students and workers alike, struggle with procrastination. They may leave tasks or homework until the last minute or have to extend their deadlines. They might also spent a lot of time excessively worrying about the amount of work they have to do instead of actually doing them. Some people struggle with maintaining their…
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Different Ways To Practice Mindfulness In Everyday Life
What does Mindfulness practice look like? When people think about mindfulness practice, they often have an image of a person sitting cross-legged, eyes closed, hands on their lap, and breathing in and out slowly for a long period of time. In reality, mindfulness can be practiced in a number of different ways. Ultimately, the goal…
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Five Evidence Based Strategies To Deal With Negative Thoughts
Negative thoughts and beliefs are very common in everyday life. In psychological disorders, they tend to be much more frequent, intense, and distressing. Examples of negative thoughts include: These negative thoughts can further exacerbate symptoms and maintain problems. For example, somebody with depression who thinks “nothing will make me feel better” will be more likely…
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Why SMART Goals Are Important For Mental Health
SMART Goals refer to goals that are: Calling your parents at least once a week would be an example of a SMART goal. But why are SMART goals so important for mental health and moving towards our psychological goals? For example, why not just go through general therapy and just say you want to become…
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When Do SMART Goals NOT Work (Strategies To Fix It)
SMART Goals are a fantastic strategy that is commonly used in many different professions to develop specific and actionable steps to moving towards a goal. This is also true in a therapy environment, where therapists will set SMART goals with patients to support their desire to improve their mental health. SMART Goals represent goals…
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Using Acceptance And Commitment To Improve Your Mental Health
We suffer more in imagination than in reality. Seneca Life is hard – no two ways about it. In these tough times, our mind can be our greatest asset or our worse enemy. Take for example, two people suffering from chronic low back pain. The first person feels incredibly angry and resentful – “why did…
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Behavioural Activation: A Self-Help Guide
Behavioural activation is a type of evidence-based therapy that has good support for its use in improving depressive symptoms (Veale, 2008). The idea behind behavioural activation is that people with depression are often feeling low and unmotivated to engage with the world. This leads to a loss of positive reinforcement (i.e., things that make people…
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Determining Your Stage Of Change Before Starting Therapy
Readiness to change model People come to therapy at different willingness levels to make a change. For example, a person who needs to get rid of their anxiety about flying in order to attend their best friend’s wedding may be very ready to engage with therapy. On the other hand, a person who must attend…
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How To Use The Downward Arrow Technique To Improve Mental Health
Carl Jung, a famous thinker in the field of psychology, once said “until we make our unconscious conscious, it will direct our lives and we will call it fate”. Understanding our inner thoughts and reasons for why we engage in certain behaviours or feel certain emotions is the first step to making a change. One…
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7 Benefits Of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive behavioural therapy is a common type of psychological treatment that is useful in treating a number of different psychological problems. CBT works by changing behaviours and thoughts that maintain a person’s difficulties. For example, tackling negative thoughts in depression or creating exposures for anxiety disorders. This article discusses seven unique benefits of choosing CBT…
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