Changing your relationship with anxiety.
Neil Webster Neil Webster

Changing your relationship with anxiety.

Hi. I thought I’d finish this little introductory series of blogs with a part 3 on how to address anxiety. Hopefully you’ve started to give up the fight against anxious thoughts and let go of the negative self-talk. Now here’s another anxiety myth we can put to rest:

 ‘You can delete anxious thoughts by replacing them with positive ones’

 Unfortunately, you can’t. That’s not a thing. Sorry positive affirmations but we are coming for you.

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‘Have a word with yourself.’
Neil Webster Neil Webster

‘Have a word with yourself.’

Hello, it’s my turn to offer up a therapeutic tip for dealing with mental health difficulties. Following on from Anna’s excellent advice on giving up the fight against anxious thoughts (see the Blog below), I decided to offer up another observation on anxiety.

Today I’m looking at negative self-talk. How many times have you told yourself to ‘just pull yourself together’ or…

Have a word with yourself.

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The brand new           Forres Counselling Blog
Carly Dryhurst-Smith Carly Dryhurst-Smith

The brand new Forres Counselling Blog

We are two psychotherapists who are passionate about sharing useful tools for dealing with real life mental health difficulties. So as part of our website, we thought it may be helpful to start a blog where we take turns to offer therapeutic tips that may help with day-to-day life. Of course, nothing beats talking therapies if you’re struggling, but to steal a supermarket tag line, every little helps.

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