The horrors of bushfires don’t go away when the last fire is out. Effects can live on for months or years in the minds and hearts – and bodies — of many people , whether their involvement was actual or as a witness.
‘Hi, please take a seat,’ I said to my new client, whom I’ll call Ellie, a retired librarian with a sad smile who had booked a one-hour session.
Ellie said, ‘No, I’ll stand thanks, I can’t sit down.’
‘Oh,’ I said.,
Terror in an MRI machine is not uncommon. The scanner is large and cylindrical, and a patient needs to lie still while enclosed inside it for quite some time. In such a situation, some people feel trapped and can panic.
My new client Julia had claustrophobia.
Jody had started having heart palpitations that frightened her so much, she was about to go to a doctor for a heart checkup and medication. Her husband and teenage children were also worried about her. I happened to be visiting a neighbour when Jody arrived in tears after a scene with her husband, a familiar event where, she said, he had sounded angry and this had made her cry. Read more
Gifted children can suffer from special stresses because of their gifts, and this can hold them back from demonstrating their amazing potentials. Some gifted children are successfully using Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT tapping) to quickly overcome their stresses, in a program from New York State University
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If you’re often anxious, that’s a worry in itself. You’re not alone in that. Anxiety as a response to stress is close to being the world’s No. 1 health problem these days.
Two-thirds of visits to doctors are because of stress.