by Agnes | Oct 21, 2019 | Counselling
Scientific studies are discovering the health benefits of silence. Where noise causes a stress response in the body, silence causes the brain to heal and regenerate. In fact, it need not be lengthy periods of silence. Even just a few 1-minute intervals during the day...
by Agnes | Jul 7, 2019 | Counselling
Kindness has a beautiful way of reaching down into a weary heart and making it shine like the rising sun (Unknown). Now studies are also finding it may just be the secret to getting someone to fall and stay in love with you! Easy read in Psychology Today...
by Agnes | May 24, 2019 | Counselling
While a bit of anxiety is good to get you going, too much will have you procrastinating for days and long-term anxiety can have devastating effects on your health and relationships. But what is anxiety? The proper definition is; “Intense, excessive and persistent...
by Agnes | Mar 19, 2019 | Counselling
Procrastination. I’m sure we can all relate to sitting for hours planning to do something which needs doing but the right moment to start never comes today and tomorrow never comes. Interesting article by Stephen C. Hayes (PhD) in Psychology Today on playing the...
by Agnes | Mar 15, 2019 | Counselling
Joe Black sings a song, ‘Ons is grond’ (We are soil), which made me think: What if one were to compare one’s self– no, one’s heart – to that of a garden? What sort of garden would a person’s heart be? Would it be the orderly type, like Kirstenbosch...
by Agnes | Feb 2, 2019 | Counselling
Around every corner we are bombarded with options promising to bring freedom. There are those who argue keeping an alkaline environment in our bodies is the secret, and I have done this for a season and found it to have some benefit. There was a time when I followed a...
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