Managing our Chimp
I’ve spoken a little here before about managing our Chimp, and the estimable Steve Peters’ ‘Chimp management’ mind model (© Prof. Steve Peters © Graphics Jeff Batista). I’m returning to it now to provide a…
Managing our Chimp
Categories for Stress management techniques
‘A Path through the Jungle’ book review
I’ve been working through ‘A Path through the Jungle’ by the estimable Professor Steve Peters with several clients, and I’d like to recommend it here. Professor Peters is responsible for the best-selling ‘The Chimp Paradox’,…
Our ‘fight or flight’ stress responses
I wanted to share the enclosed as I’ve found it fascinating what our sympathetic nervous system – there to protect us – can do for us, and to us (or I suppose more precisely what…
Change your mind: from thinking errors to Thinking Skills
I work with a number of 1-1 coaching clients focussing on a number of these thinking skills, and their relationship with how they feel, and behave as a result. We typically talk about what they…
Self-talk and self-compassion
I very much enjoyed running a training session on Monday last for a local mental health peer support group – Depression Xpression, based in Reading and Wokingham in Berkshire – entitled ‘Preventing and Managing Stress’,…
You and Your Stress: Stress symptoms exercise
This exercise is in the form of slides – on the Slideshare platform – just click on the pic to take a look. This exercise aims to enable us to ‘normalise’ the experience of stress…
Managing emotions and preventing stress: keeping on an even keel
I wanted to say a few words here about ‘keeping on an even keel’ and responding, rather than reacting, with a view to managing emotions and preventing stress. We’re exploring here how useful it can…
A technique for dealing with social anxiety and shyness
I’m enclosing here a link to a 6-slide excerpt from a group training session I run, entitled ‘Understanding and Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness’. (It’s on the Slideshare platform). It suggests a simple and straightforward…
From stress to emotional intelligence
I wanted to share here a few ideas on the relationship between stress and emotional intelligence (EQ), and how we might be able to move from stress to emotional intelligence: being emotionally intelligent rather than…
‘Happiness Habits’ course from Action for Happiness
I’d like to share a couple of things with you hereFirstly: 🪧 to promote/familiarise you with a great movement and charity I’ve recently signed up as a volunteer with: the Action for Happiness https://actionforhappiness.org/ and Secondly: 🪧to let you…