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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
