Author: Alice Boyes, PhD.

This is a technique I use in sessions with clients that you can try yourself. Imagine back to a situation in which you needed an adult to be

Most of the strategies that work for people who have “disorders” like depression or anxiety disorders, also work well for dealing with life in general. I like to

– Fill a big bowl with iced water (i.e. water and ice) so that it is really cold. Dip your face into it (for less than a minute)

You can use this strategy when you’re feeling – anxious, – tense, and/or – overly sped up, or like your thoughts and feelings are racing. An emotion is

The last couple of weeks I’ve been practicing mindfulness of self criticism. I’m attempting to notice when I’ve got a self critical internal monologue going on, rather than

Here are some questions you can ask yourself if you are feeling anxious about an upcoming social interaction. Let’s for example imagine you want to ask someone out

I read some research awhile back (I can’t remember where sorry!) that said that people’s spare time usually occurs in chunks of 40 minutes or less. The time

If you have a “B” task that you have been putting off (read here to find out what a “B” task is) try asking yourself what the “next

Now that is this blog is starting to have a nice, wee community of readers (through the subscriptions and the Facebook page), I thought I’d experiment with doing

Diagram about Anxiety I made another chart. This one is about Anxiety. Click here to view. I’ve now formatted the above doc as a pdf so you can