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Mental health is a global issue

Mental health is a global issue

Recently I took a trip to Cambodia and delivered a well being training session at the impact hub in Phnom Penh I spent time with many local people and made some discoveries. I realised that we have a world wide mental health problem and as issues relating to mental health are not treated equally to physical health the problem continues growing. Mental health is not

  • Mental health stigma is global
  • Stress, anxiety & Depression are global
  • Mental health is not treated equally to physical health

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Help with depression, stress and anxiety

Help with depression, stress and anxiety

HeadGym have worked with clients experiencing depression, stress, anxiety, OCD and other conditions our clients continue to be successful in dealing with these issues using our unique techniques.

This video explains in simple terms and in 1 minute the basis to some of our techniques. Over the last 20 years  an acceptance and understanding of neuroplasticity has emerged. This has enabled us to understand that the brain is able to change and is not as previously thought; hardwired in fact it can rewire itself to adapt and change in the most amazing ways

https://youtu.be/S9PtKDN9Z24

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Top tips for stress

Top tips for stress

Top Tips For Stressful Situations

Here at HeadGym we get asked a lot about how to deal with stressful situations.

Of course, there’s not one ‘right’ answer as everyone responds to things in different ways. But the key to trying to tackle stress is to understand why you’re feeling that way in the first place.

More often than not, stress starts as anxiety or worry before an event or experience. Most people will have experienced these emotions before an exam, interview, presentation or their first day at a new job.

The common denominator in these situations (and many more that you could consider stressful) is uncertainty.

Uncertainty leads to worry, worry can lead to anxiety or stress and then if it’s not tackled it can even result in depression.

In a situation where you don’t know what’s going to happen, your mind will look to find ‘certainty’ by going through the potential outcomes.

It runs a ‘film show’ of possible events and outcomes which haven’t yet happened (and often we’ll let our minds go to quite a negative place rather than a positive one when imagining these scenarios).

Having these thoughts over and over means you may have decided something’s going to go badly before you’ve even started it. Physically it can cause effects such as nausea, sweating and headaches.

By this point your head’s spinning and you haven’t even started your stressful day yet.

So it’s clear that to deal with stress, we have to go right back to before the event and put some tactics in place to stop the feelings escalating.

Some of our top stress-busting tips, which you should be putting in place before you even notice worry or anxiety creeping in, are:

  • Practice meditation and mindfulness on a regular basis
  • Limit the uncertainty where possible
  • Exercise
  • Eat healthily
  • Recognise that feeling an element of stress is normal some stress is good and is there to help you ‘fight or flight’
  • Focus on the positive on a daily basis
  • Appreciate what you have and are

To really maximise the benefits, make all of the above a habit rather than a one-off. It can also help to have the support of a coach to expand and develop some of these strategies, which is where HeadGym comes in.

Ultimately it’s important to remember nobody makes us feel anything, while stress can be attributed to the actions of somebody else, all of the feelings we have are ours and are created in our own heads. This means we have the power to eradicate them!

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How is HeadGym different?

How is HeadGym different?

If you’re looking for some support then it can be very confusing to decide exactly who to turn to. There are many different types of coaching, mentoring, counselling and therapy out there and it can be a bit of a minefield when you’re researching which would work best for you.

So how is HeadGym different and what do we offer that you won’t get elsewhere?

Firstly, it’s a growing organisation of individuals who are dedicated to improving the wellbeing of as many people as we can through coaching, training and speaking.

But what does that mean and how is that different from ‘traditional’ counselling?

It means we look into the future rather than back at the past. Although any unresolved issues are discussed, it’s about concentrating on how you can start moving forward and then while you’re on that journey you’ll find you start dealing with the past in a much more effective way.

There is definitely merit in reflective (or ‘traditional’) counselling models and for some people it’s exactly what they need.

But others may be seeking something different and that’s where we come in, by letting them take control of their emotional state and giving them to tools and techniques to build their resilience so anything which happens in the future doesn’t rock them quite as much as it perhaps once would have done.

When someone has their first appointment with HeadGym, it’s very informal and relaxed. Normally we’ll meet face to face for the initial few sessions before potentially moving to appointments over an online system such as Skype.

We don’t hold appointments in clinical settings but instead we’re in community venues, which we find helps relax people further.

You’ll get a talk about the process, what you can expect and how we evaluate how it’s going. Then (if everyone is happy), it’s time to start the coaching using the HeadGym goals system – which you can read more about in lots of our other blog posts.

What’s great is we’ve had lots of clients who have tried other therapies which haven’t worked or haven’t been long-term enough to make a lasting impact.

They then come to us, get the techniques to help themselves, get to start looking into the future and get to decide how to progress. For a lot of them it’s made a real difference which is exactly what we’re here to do. 

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