Category: Emotional Wellbeing

Dr Faiza Sharing Helpful Tips
Emotional Wellbeing

5 Things I Shared With My Patients That They Found Helpful

One The capacity to make mindful choices for our sleep, nutrition, exercise and movement, work-life balance, resilient relationship building and maintenance every single day is neither realistic nor natural, especially in this modern era. Pick one category and start with a simple, extremely easy and doable habit that you commit to maintain irrespective of the

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Communication

Suffering To Healing: Connecting Via Stories

Bustan (2015) Psychophysics […] suffering [involves] long-term implications of pain associated with threat, loss, potential damage, and impending harm for the self [and is] the combined display of several distinctive negative emotions. Cassell (1982) Medical ethics […] suffering can be defined as the state of severe distress associated with events that threaten the intactness of

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Emotional Wellbeing

Let’s Start Living With Hope And Purpose

Today’s world and lifestyle is pushing us all into a spiral where the more we do, the more we feel left behind. It seems like a race with the finishing line moving farther away no matter how fast we go. Perhaps that’s where we are doing things wrong. We keep trying to do more and

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Emotional Wellbeing

What Does ‘Holding space’ Mean, In Terms Of Psychology/Therapy?

As human beings we all experience feelings and emotions and often people start thinking that doing so makes us become a problem. Unfortunately, it’s not feeling the emotions that could be viewed as problematic but how we respond/react to emotions. For example, Mr X has lost his job. He’s the sole earner in his family

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Anxiety

Are Medications Bad for Mental Health Issues?

Treatment of people with medications when they present with issues related to their mood, motivation, sleep, stress, fears and doubts, worries and feelings should be based on their journey as individuals and not just physical signs and symptoms. Physical health can be seriously affected by poor emotional and mental wellbeing; however, management in these cases

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Emotional Wellbeing

Emotional Displacement

Feelings can be misplaced or displaced when we direct or project them inappropriately at someone or something that is not the source of those feelings. Consider the following hypothetical scenario – Jo is driving back from work after a really long day where he was yelled at by his manager for not submitting a report

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Communication

A Dreamer’s Hope

Somewhere along the line, we have started to pursue goals as a destination and not the journey. The destination, in my opinion, is not a tangible thing and creates an illusion of a dream that we all need to keep striving for, yet will never achieve. Getting married, having children, owning a house, cars, building

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Communication

Prickly Question Salad

Do you wonder if we’ve improved management of physical pain but have forgotten how to recognise and manage emotional pain? Our children find it okay to cry, ‘bear’ the pain when they fall down and scrape their knees and elbows or get hurt in a match, but if they don’t come top of the class

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