Understanding Exam Stress In my therapy practice I regularly deal with students struggling with exam stress. The same problems recur year after year: • Difficulty sleeping • Poor concentration • Emotionally overwhelmed • Anxiety / Worry / Over-thinking • Irrational and / or Aggressive Behaviour • Stomach pain • Catastrophic thinking If a student has[...]
Are you worried about your child’s first days at school? Are you concerned that your child may not be emotionally equipped to handle the big change? Kinesiology offers a really gentle way of balancing the emotional stress for child and parent. Starting school is an emotional time When your child starts school or pre-school,[...]
What are neuro-developmental exercises? I regularly ask people if they crawled when they were a baby? It’s quite common to hear that they didn’t. Sometimes when you don’t crawl you can miss out on some basic movement patterns. And missing these movement patterns at this critical early time can have an impact on you, in[...]
I have successfully worked with many people suffering from post traumatic stress. When you experience a traumatic event like a car crash or an assault, your body switches temporarily into survival mode, in order to do it’s best to protect you. Three deep rooted survival reactions can occur – Flight, Fight and Freeze. Very[...]
Concussion – a brain injury I’ve worked with many clients who have had concussion – either as part of a sport (often rugby) or from accidents like car crashes. They often come to me with emotional issues, such as, irritability, anxiety, rapidly changing moods, or temper outbursts. The person would often say they are ‘not quite themselves’. This[...]
Why is my child biting? Biting in children is very common. Infants will bite as a means of exploring a new object or even their own ability to use their teeth on another person and see the reaction. However some children continue to bite as they leave toddlerhood and at this point one must look[...]
Nervous habits at Tony Galvin’s clinic Lots of children and adults have nervous habits. These can be anything from touching the face, nail biting, fidgeting, licking or touching one’s lips, or excessive blinking. As the name suggests they are habits of the central nervous system. It must be understood that a person with such habits has[...]
Learning to write is a big challenge when you are a child. It takes concentration, persistence and skill to be able to master it. Some children however, find it extra difficult and they often have to make some unusual compensations to allow them to write properly. These compensations can include; gripping the pen[...]
Allergies are becoming increasingly common. In the last twenty years in Ireland the number of people suffering with allergy problems has doubled. Worryingly, there is a frightening rise in anaphylaxis – to peanuts, eggs, dairy products, etc. Just look at this website to get some details about Ireland alone. This extreme reaction happens, when the[...]
What is your immune system? Your immune system is made up of billions of cells – mostly white blood cells. These cells travel through the blood and seek out and attack antigens (bacteria and viruses). They can travel into organs and tissues to fix all sorts of potential sickness and disease. This process is happening[...]
At a certain age, being a hyperactive child is quite normal. Children are designed to run around and play all day. It is an important process in brain development. However, by the time children hit four or five years of age, they should have developed new abilities in concentration and focus, and should be less impulsive. For[...]
Children or adults that are over sensitive to light, are under pressure. A very primitive part of their brain has made an association between a sense of danger and light. It is crucial to understand that they have little or no control over their response to light. Instead it needs to be seen as a[...]
Being over sensitive to noise or sounds can leave you in a constant state of stress. It is important to understand that a person who is over sensitive to noise, has little or no control over their reaction to it. For them, the noise or sound is linked to a sudden fright. Their autonomic nervous system (ANS)[...]
Many children and adults are over sensitive to touch. It is common to be oversensitive to more than one of the five senses of sound, touch, sight, taste and smell. Having touch sensitivity implies that your brain has somehow associated touch with threat. It is important to understand that the child or adult has little or no[...]
