Author: Alice Boyes, PhD.

I write a lot on this blog about balanced thinking skills. The following is one easy experiment to try. Step 1: Think about something that causes you worry/anxiety.

A couple of weeks ago, I watched an interesting Fora.tv talk by psychology PhD Dr Matt Walker (a Professor at University of California, Berkley). Most of the talk

Something EXTREMELY important (and reasonably simple) you can do to improve your psychological health and coping abilities is to improve your ability to correctly identify your negative emotions.

A couple of months ago I wrote about Julie Powell – the real Julie from the Julie & Julia movie (you can read my earlier post here). Julie’s

I wrote this for a local gym and thought I’d post it here too. The examples are related to eating and exercising but the info is just as

The University of Canterbury Magazine article I mentioned in yesterday’s post can be read at the link below Just the article University of Canterbury Magazine – interview with

To access (these instructions are for PC users), right click on the link below and choose “save link as” (Sorry Mac Users, I’m not sure of the procedure

Consider that people have basic personality styles and then a range of different behaviours that stem from those basic styles. Sometimes the personality styles we love most about

This is a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) activity that might be useful for people to do as a self help activity. It’s usually used as part of depression

I said in my last post that I would write some ideas for life experiments. There is also some info about reducing anxiety included later in this post