Are you overthinking it?
We all do it—reliving a moment over and over, obsessively thinking about something that is worrying us, our minds ruminating like a rat on a wheel. Worry and rumination are very common thinking styles and many clients come to therapy …
Managing Covid Anxiety- Switching off from all the noise
Like the virus itself, anxiety has swept the globe since COVID reared its ugly head in 2019. The anxiety side effect has ‘gone viral’ with the peaks and troughs mimicking the waves of infection and subsequent media bombardment. Living with uncertainty can be difficult and even for the most relaxed individual, the ever-changing information and rules surrounding vaccination, travel, testing, school and work can leave us feeling overwhelmed and completely over it; aka- COVID fatigue. The world breathed a sigh of relief in 2021 as we thought we found a solution in a vaccine, but the virus had other ideas, mutating, and reinventing itself like a failed start up. And while 2022 has brought new challenges as we see infection rates soar, we must remain positive and not let COVID anxiety run rife.
Looking to the year ahead with kindness
It’s a fresh new year and predictably we like to kick things off with some goals, ideas and dreams for the year ahead. I’m sure high on most lists, is the dream of eradicating a certain virus from the world …