Anxiety presents itself in such vastly different ways in all of us, but there are a few things that remain constant and true. Anxiety serves a purpose. Anxiety is not solely a bad thing. Anxiety is what alerts us to potential threats or dangerous situations. Anxiety is a physiological coping…

It’s been a difficult year for most, there is no denying that. It’s been a year of loss, of grief, of loneliness. People’s lives have been lost, people’s livelihoods have been lost, and how we conducted our day to day life has permanently changed. It is not negative to say…

“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.” — Margaret Atwood COVID19 and the Global Pandemic that ensued has consumed us and tested us in ways that we could never have anticipated. It’s been 12 months of social…

I have long believed that sleep is one of the foundational pillars of wellness and yet my relationship with sleep has been a complicated one. As a child I had what I now believe to be a fear of falling asleep, something that followed me right through to adulthood. This…

Music has the ability to transport me to a very specific point in time. Often all it takes is hearing the opening bars of a song, or notable lyrics from a chorus, and I’ve instantaneously travelled back in time to a moment that might previously have escaped my memory. One…

After last week’s piece I had an initial pang of shame. It lasted about 24 hours and during this time I was nervous and anxious about how my article would be perceived. I was concerned about what people would think and I was worried about how I would be perceived…

I was approximately 6 years old when I suffered my first panic attack and while that was 30 years ago and the details of this incident are somewhat blurry, the feelings I experienced are not. An unexpected and overwhelming state of terror & fear took hold of me, as though…