Working On The Body Blog
Therapy Digest 15
In Therapy Digest 15 Sally Baker explores unhelpful thinking styles and how they can be making your life harder for you so she offers you some techniques to increase your awareness plus tips on how you can take back control of your thoughts. Also in this Digest,...
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Strictly Come Dancing Disrupts Relationships
Strictly Come Dancing has always been about more than gliding around the dance floor performing a stylish American Smooth or a non-stop, high energy Jive. The enduring appeal for the devoted fans of BBC Television’s annual dance competition appeals to more than...
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Compulsive Shopping Is An Obsessive Behaviour
Officially known as Oniomania. Definition: Compulsive buying disorder (CBD), or oniomania (from Greek ὤνιος ṓnios ‘for sale’ and μανία manía ‘insanity’). We probably all know someone that we’d consider to be a ‘shopaholic’. However, this term is used loosely, and for...
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How To Stop Spending Money Online
Do you spend more money than you intend to when you browse the net and get drawn into scrolling through the pages of e-commerce sites? The questions below are designed to give you some insight to see if you have a compulsive shopping problem or not and to offer...
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3 Easy Hacks for Increasing Fitness Motivation
Almost everyone struggles with motivation. For instance, it’s hard to go back to the gym after an extended break. You know the voice in your head says how tough it will be and how sore you will feel so why not go back tomorrow instead?...
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What emotions are you swallowing?
Emotional Eating is Never About Food Breakups, money woes and stress at work can all trigger emotional eating But real reasons for gorging on food are more deep-rooted, say experts Sally Baker & Liz Hogon. From strict parents to hating...
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Therapy Digest 14
Latest Observations from the world of therapy. What's really happening when you eat your emotions and three simple hacks for you to supercharge your motivation to be fit and active. Emotional Eating is Never About Food Breakups, money woes and stress at work can all...
read moreTwo little known lessons in sport
Boys and young men have had poor examples of leadership in sport in the UK for too long, and it has added to the growing trend of toxic masculinity that can seem so prevalent today. When your heroes misbehave it can influence fans to behave in the same way. Often...
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Is the media making you more dissatisfied with your body?
Now this long, hot summer draws to an end it would seem from many different news sources that the media’s obsession with body perfect, good-looking men and women has increased ordinary people’s dissatisfaction of their bodies. This influence can be especially powerful...
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10 easy ways to hack your food choices
People on a ‘Get Healthy Eating’ mission often make the mistake of setting themselves impossibly high standards to achieve. Cutting out all carbohydrates, or only eating raw food, or even scheduled fasting advised on a 5:2 dieting plan are all challenges that more...
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