Reeta Luthra: Stress and Your Health
Helping Your Mind Look After You
Imagine if you lived in a world where there were no other people, no animals, no birds, no fish, no insects. No life form whatsoever. It might be a nice thought for a couple of days but after a while, it would no longer be a life, it would simply [...] Read more »
There can’t be too many sane and rational people who haven’t been brought to their knees by the green-eyed monster at some point. Jealousy is one of the strangest emotions around. There seems to be no earthly purpose for it, yet when it strikes, it can consume and drive all [...] Read more »
Gratitude is one of the healthiest things you can do for your mind with regards to your personal development. Expressing gratitude brings more peace into your life because gratitude is a NOW thing. Gratitude moves you into acknowledging all the things that are RIGHT with your life – this makes [...] Read more »
Continuing my “Ask the Therapist” series as a guest over at Letters of Love, a pen pal support group for people struggling with depression, self-injury, addiction & eating disorders. This is the third article in the “Ask a therapist” series. To view all the articles in this series, you’ll find [...] Read more »
Decisions are choices we make throughout the day, every day. Although everyone has times when decision making is difficult and causes a bit of stress, occassional difficulty making decisions isn’t a major issue. The problem occurs when you find yourself constantly unhappy with what is going on around you – [...] Read more »
Stress isn’t just about ranting and raving when things get too much. Stress creeps up through the daily traumas, upsets and shocks that we go through – the ones we bury and ignore until they cause behavioural and health issues too big to ignore. The majority of people who hire [...] Read more »
Stress from the environment acts on us in both an obvious and a subconscious way. I was reminded of this late last night. I had a TV film on at a low volume as background noise while working on my laptop. The film finished and a rap concert started – [...] Read more »
Making successful choices is part of the mechanism that helps us to deal with stress and the effects of stress. When we distort success in our minds, we can come to think of it as something that happens to special people. It becomes something we might achieve one day (if [...] Read more »
The tragic news of Alexander McQueen’s apparent suicide has devastated much of the fashion industry. Fashion heathen that I am, I had not heard of Alexander McQueen until news of his death broke out. Yes, I should get out more. However, the papers have told me so much, it feels [...] Read more »
I get emails every day from people looking for therapy to get to the underlying stress behind their health issue. Some of these people have serious conditions while others are noticing the physical effects of stress for the first time. An email arrived from someone who wanted help with his [...] Read more »