Category: Change
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Self-worth Challenge (Part 3)
Welcome to part 3 of the Self-worth Challenge! This is the final part of my blog on discovering healthy self-worth. You can find Part 1 if you click here, and Part 2 here So far we’ve learned that self-awareness and self-acceptance are important aspects of discovering and healing our sense of self-worth. The third ingredient…
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Self-worth Challenge (Part 2)
Welcome to part 2 of the Self-worth Challenge. You can find Day 1 if you click here. We’ve talked about the importance of developing self-awareness as one of the steps to gaining insight into your own self-worth with the intention of improving it. Your development of your own self-awareness is now a work in progress.…
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Self-worth Challenge (Part 1)
How do you really feel about your self-worth? Have you ever stopped to think? If you’re curious to discover more about developing a healthy sense of self-worth this three-part blog is for you! I’m going to be inviting you to start your journey into understanding your self-worth by setting you some gentle challenges. All you…
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Finding Self Acceptance
Would you rather be someone else? If you’re not feeling happy with who you are right now, and wish you weren’t ‘you’ but someone else with better qualities, I get it! I’ve been there myself. Life can be a real struggle, a disappointment and seem to be so unfair at times when we feel we…
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What does good therapy look like?
Does Instagram sometimes make you cringe? I’ve been posting content on Instagram for nearly a year now @belgamlincounselling. The amount of mental health and therapy content on this popular social media channel is huge! Some of it is very, very good, but also I’m noticing a feeling of disquiet in me around content I’ve seen…
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A bridge to somewhere
A bridge takes us from one place to another, with more ease. If this basic wooden bridge wasn’t there I would either have to leap and hope for the best (probably not a good idea for me!) or scramble down and up a steep bank getting my feet wet in the process. This way takes…
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Do you have a critical voice?
Do you ever have a niggly, critical voice in the back of your head telling you that you aren’t good enough? I’d say it’s likely you do because it’s a pretty normal phenomenon. This voice can actually hold us back from getting on in life and make us feel miserable. The trouble is it can…
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What colour are you feeling today?
I love a nice bit of colour! A garden in full bloom gives me a real lift. And I really admire people who can wear flamboyant colours; something I struggle to do but I’m working on it! Colours are like a language and have different cultural meanings. Colour can also describe how we feel inside.…
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Food, Gut and Mental Health
I recently attended an online lecture with Margret O’Brien, nutrition and lifestyle coach, though Iron Mill College. The main message was that it has been proven by research that good nutrition supports good mental health and poor nutrition can contribute to mental health problems. This post will share some of the main points which caught…
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Let the children play
Let the children have their way Let the children play Let the children play Carlos Santana / Leon N Patillo ‘Let the children play’ is a sentiment very close to my heart at the moment. Children of Ukraine Events in Ukraine serve to focus my thoughts on children where their previously safe world has suddenly…