Discover insights and practical tools to nurture your mental health, emotional resilience, and overall wellbeing. Our wellness articles combine the depth of Existential Analysis with compassionate, real-world guidance to help you cope with stress, anxiety, and life’s challenges. Whether you’re navigating burnout, searching for balance, or wanting to feel more grounded, these resources offer reflection, self-care practices, and meaning-centered strategies to support a healthier, more fulfilling life.
An article on why children may experience anxiety, how to spot the signs of anxiety in children, and developing tools for them to deal with the ‘big feelings’. Introduction Mental health is more than the absence of mental health disorders, the World Health Organisation (WHO) defines it as a state of wellbeing where individuals realise […]
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Knowing how to stay focused with greater mindfulness in our current times is as challenging as ever. There is a vast amount of distraction from social media, technology, multifaceted advertisements across our townships and cities and also pressure to be a ‘success,’ from a view point of made up pre-requisites by large companies. Sometimes positive
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Meditation and mindfulness work in tandem to help you clear your mind, find greater focus, and give you the tools you need to stay present and live life in the moment. The benefits are endless, here are just a few of them. All it requires is taking some time out of your day to sit
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There is often a strong push to be successful and our attention is often on future outcomes. If we achieve this task, if we gain that promotion, if we reach that milestone then we will be happy. Work and family pressures can result in us constantly thinking about tomorrow and next week. ‘What is for
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Why do I overthink everything? How can I enjoy life more and be in a state of flow? How is overthinking stopping me from living the life I wish to live? Going gung ho and rushing into things is not always a wise idea. It is important that in certain situations we let our hair
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How to love yourself and how to take time for yourself? What is self care? We live in such a fast paced world and we are often living in the tomorrow and not getting time to pause and catch our breath. Intense jobs, commutes, family pressures and advertisements of solutions in purchasing shiny new products
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Am I burnt out? What does burnout feel like? We are living in a fast paced world with pressure to work long hours and lots of social media and technological distractions. We can often compare our lives to the lives of others via magazines and social media which can place further pressure on us to
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When people let you down it can be painful. When friends disappoint you or there is a family disappointment it can leave us feeling as if there is a lack of empathy and care towards ourselves. We will learn in this article about what we can and cannot control and why this matters for our
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Do you give yourself a hard time? Most people do! We judge ourselves mercilessly about any number of things: our weight, our looks, our career, our work, our body, our relationships, our sex lives, our lack of fitness, our parenting, our pay check, our status, our habits, our productivity, our characteristics, our diet, our choices,
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In this article we will learn to accept what is, the power of acceptance and peaceful living. “The only thing that is constant is change.” Heraclitus We often worry about things that never really happen. We bring baggage from our past to the fore that causes suffering and we can worry about future outcomes resulting
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Written by Therapist Sandy ElChaar.
