We often embark on a diet to reduce food intake, but many of us consume an unhealthy level of digital fare. According to the Tonight programme 48% of us in the UK describe ourselves as hooked on our handsets and the average person checks their phone 85 times a day.
While Wi-Fi holds tremendous possibilities used […]
Avril Allen
Spring Cleaning
As the sun begins to shine it can show up a lot of dross, but it doesn’t need to be Spring-time to start afresh. And do you know that a good spring clean can start with the mind?
How much easier it is to focus when the mind is cleared of mental chatter and […]
I am thankful that thus far today I have not had any unkind thoughts or said any harsh words or done anything that I regret. However, now I need to get out of bed and so things may become more difficult.
How To Live A Good Life -Sylvia Boorstein
Catastrophizing about the social fallout of lockdown and […]
3 minutes to Handle Doubts and Fears
Anxious thoughts and feelings are hard-wired into us to avoid danger. They are there to keep us safe. But the trouble is these days we are rarely lunch for a lion and the threat is usually no more than a threat to the ego, not life and limb! As […]
Posture makes all the difference to the way we feel in a situation. You may not realise you’re tense because you’re used to feeling uncomfortable. But tension in your body is not only the result of stress & anxiety but causes it. And other people pick up on it.
It’s a chicken and egg situation. For […]
Stress and Anxiety Breakthrough Coaching
by Psychologist and Coach Avril Allen
There is a common perception of lawyers as cool and collected by nature, and while the profession does indeed take intellectual rigour, lawyers are human and maybe affected by difficult emotions despite their efforts to disguise them. Within the profession stress and anxiety have become taboo. […]
I am glad to be invited as guest writer for Pink Moods:
Empowering Support for Everyday Happiness.
Who Is Pulling Your Strings?
Avril Allen
Many women are talented carers and nurturers it is true. But not all of us. The rest of us feel we have been put in that role and are not particularly suited to it.
We may […]
