Category: Self esteem
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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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Coping with Overwhelm
8.10am Valentines Day I’d been up all night arranging roses for delivery and I was exhausted! As I opened our shop for business, I noticed large flakes of snow swirling in the wind and starting to settle. It was the last straw! I felt so overwhelmed; such a bleak feeling of powerlessness and despair. I…
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Counselling in Bradford on Avon
Bradford on Avon is a picturesque town in the heart of Wiltshire. It’s on the southern edge of the Cotswolds and is known for its vibrant history and beautiful stone buildings. The River Avon and the Kennet & Avon Canal both run through the heart of the town. There’s an array of unique shops, pubs…
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Gaming Addiction and Digital Technology: Impact on Mental Health
We’re all impacted… Do you think you are impacted by gaming addiction or overuse of technology? Maybe or maybe not, but we’re all probably aware of what a time-sink going online can be. It feels like 10 minutes but when we look at the clock two hours have flown by! Two hours we’ll never get…
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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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Personal Bill of Rights
This Personal Bill of Rights is an idea that we all have certain rights as human beings in personal relationships with others. We should be free to exercise or assert these rights in a relationship and, at the same time, consider the needs of others, allowing them the same freedoms. I’ve included this list in…
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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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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…