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What is Anxiety?
Because your thoughts of being in a threatening situation lead to your Fight, Flight or Freeze response being triggered you will experience
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Laura Knight Dip.Couns
- Jan 5, 2021
- 4 min
How to cope with change and reduce your anxiety
According to Darwin’s Origins of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives, it is not the strongest that...
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Laura Knight Dip.Couns
- Dec 16, 2020
- 5 min
5 ways to manage your anxiety at Christmas
Anxious thoughts can lead you to withdraw or avoid and feel overwhelmed with all that is happening around you, amongst all this you can be s
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Laura Knight Dip.Couns
- Nov 30, 2020
- 7 min
What is the Fight or Flight Response? And how does it contribute to your anxiety?
In this blog I would like to focus on the fight or flight response and why people who have difficulty managing their anxiety may...
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Laura Knight Dip.Couns
- Nov 10, 2020
- 5 min
Why is Self-Care so important?
Why is self-care important? How often do you take care of yourself? How often do you put others needs ahead of your own? How often do you...
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Laura Knight Dip.Couns
- Nov 2, 2020
- 4 min
Why do I say Sorry so much?
Are you a person who is always saying sorry? Saying sorry too much is a common problem, and apparently studies show that more women than...
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Laura Knight Dip.Couns
- Oct 4, 2020
- 6 min
How can positive thinking help my anxiety?
When your state of mind is generally optimistic, you're better able to handle everyday stress in a more constructive way and this can also c
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Laura Knight Dip.Couns
- Sep 26, 2020
- 6 min
3 ways to calm your anxiety
This blog will introduce you to some strategies that my clients and I work with and will hopefully help you cope a little better in those mo
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Laura Knight Dip.Couns
- Sep 5, 2020
- 8 min
What is your critical inner voice and how can you stop it?
However if this inner critical voice is constant and you are unable to stop it, it undermines you constantly and interferes in you being abl
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Laura Knight Dip.Couns
- Aug 27, 2020
- 6 min
The Effects of Bullying on your Mental Health
If you experienced bullying as a child and feel difficulties you face today are as a result of that bullying, being able to process that wit
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Laura Knight Dip.Couns
- Aug 24, 2020
- 5 min
What is the Drama Triangle and how can it help you when in conflict with others?
40 years ago Psychologist Dr Stephen Karpman developed what he called the 'Drama Triangle' which consisted of 3 roles Victim, Rescuer and Pe
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Laura Knight Dip.Couns
- Aug 11, 2020
- 6 min
Why Do I Wake Up Feeling Anxious? And How Can I Calm Myself Down?
Researchers have found that there is a cortisol awakening response (CAR) and have found that cortisol (our stress hormone) is highest in the
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Laura Knight Dip.Couns
- Aug 7, 2020
- 6 min
What is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) And How Can It Help You As We Emerge From Lockdown
There are a number of different therapies that are available to you, so when you are looking for a therapist to work with it can be quite...
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Laura Knight Dip.Couns
- Jul 30, 2020
- 7 min
The Vicious Cycle of Anxiety
If you struggle with anxiety and find that you are avoiding doing things because of the fear, then you may be stuck in a vicious cycle of an
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Laura Knight Dip.Couns
- Jul 25, 2020
- 5 min
How to Use Positive Memories to Boost Your Mental Health
So why not start taking a memory moment every day.
Here are some ways to facilitate your memory moment
In this modern day and age Facebook
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Laura Knight Dip.Couns
- Jul 5, 2020
- 3 min
How to Cope with Social Anxiety
The defining feature of social anxiety is not just about being in a social situation, but it is an intense fear of being judged by others, c
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Laura Knight Dip.Couns
- Jun 25, 2020
- 3 min
What are Unhelpful Thinking Styles and Why do you Need to Know About Them?
Firstly, we all have unhelpful thoughts, but some of us have them more often than others. If you find that unhelpful thoughts are something
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Laura Knight Dip.Couns
- Jun 12, 2020
- 6 min
I can now love the women who looks back at me from the mirror
This is a vulnerable blog for me to write, but I hope by understanding who I was and who I am now, will help you.
I hope it will help some o
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Laura Knight Dip.Couns
- Jun 9, 2020
- 7 min
Coping with Health Anxiety
For someone with health anxiety, any thought, sensation or fear of illness can trigger anxiety symptoms to the point that it interferes with
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Laura Knight Dip.Couns
- May 29, 2020
- 8 min
Coping with Loneliness through covid-19 isolation #loneliness #covid19 #socialisolation #lockdown
These last few months through this coronavirus pandemic and social isolation we have been unable to physically, socially and emotionally co
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