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Navigating the High-Performance Burnout Cycle
High-performance burnout often hits those who seem capable, reliable, and productive. Ambition and responsibility drive them, but when tied to self-worth, they can become exhausting. Early signs include irritability, fogginess, and low enjoyment. Recovery isn’t just rest—it’s learning to set limits, pace yourself, and relate to work and pressure in a healthier way.
Dr Jo Stuart
2 min read
Managing Menopause Anxiety
Anxiety is a common, often early sign of perimenopause, sometimes appearing before hot flushes or night sweats. Hormonal shifts, poor sleep, and life stress can create a “perfect storm,” leaving you on edge, overwhelmed and doubting yourself, even if you’ve always coped well. You’re not failing or “going backwards” – your nervous system is under extra strain. Evidence-based support like CBT with a clinical psychologist can help you understand what’s happening, break the cycle
Dr Shabnam Hariri
4 min read
Understanding Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Its Benefits
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has gained significant attention in recent years as a powerful tool for mental health treatment. This evidence-based approach focuses on the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, aiming to help individuals identify and change negative thought patterns. In this blog post, we will explore what CBT is, how it works, its benefits, and why it may be the right choice for you or someone you know. Understanding Cognitive Behavioral
Dr Jo Stuart
4 min read
The Cognitive Thinking Element of Anxiety
Lets understand thinking and how it can work for us or against us.
Dr Jo Stuart
3 min read
Unhelpful Thinking Styles
We have evolved to think. From the moment we wake up in the morning - off our thoughts go. We think, think, think about the future and think, think, think about the past. But why is it that our thoughts are the way they are? Evolution provides an explanation. The main drive of evolution is for us to survive. Do you think, therefore, that your brain would prefer it if you were thinking happy thoughts all of the time and never worrying. Is this a better way to survive? Or, is
Dr Jo Stuart
7 min read
Sleep Hygiene: Getting to Sleep
For most people there is nothing better than getting in to bed and relaxing before dropping off to sleep. For others, this process can be a painful one of fretting, worrying and hours of trying to sleep. Here we will briefly outline the important areas of consideration when wanting to drop off easily. Let’s begin with the important things to remember during the day. Day-time events: · It is important to try to exercise each day – if we use our muscles during the day this can
Dr Jo Stuart
4 min read
Sleep Hygiene: The Sleep Routine
Research shows that if we have the same routine for between thirty minutes and an hour each evening before going to sleep, then our brains develop the understanding that that particular set of behaviours results in us going to sleep. After a short time of having the same routine each night, when we carry out the first behaviour in the set of behaviours, our brain starts to shut down in preparation for sleep. As such, a sleep routine is really important. A sleep routine is ver
Dr Jo Stuart
2 min read
The basics of CBT: Confirmation bias.
How do we develop beliefs and how could evolution be working against us?
Dr Jo Stuart
3 min read
Exercise and Stress
The benefits of exercise on stress and how to get yourself exercising. The evidence on the link between exercise and improved mood, concentration, health and wellbeing is strong, clear and consistent. Amongst the most common findings cited are that: · Exercise increases bodies production of endorphins · Exercise clears the mind of repetitive thoughts and worries · Exercise raises your mood · Exercises improves the quality of your sleep The mechanism for these effects are th
Dr Jo Stuart
3 min read
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