Fear of flying, also called aerophobia/aviophobia, affects about 10% of the population. It is a type of fear the can keep coming up in your life as your travel by air. It can be experienced as an unexpected panic while flying and can feel overwhelming for many. If it...

Summer is over and now it is time for kids to return to school. Yet, many children feel anxious and stressed about returning to their school environment, with Covid-19 still lingering in the background. Feeling nervous and having jitters is actually normal. Kids don't...

Grief is a natural emotion that occurs when we lose someone we love or something valuable to us. It is a natural part of our human experience. As we watch our daily news talking about the recent loss of a loved queen, Queen Elizabeth II, we connect with this feeling...

Anxiety can look very different for everyone. It can also be experienced different. Anxiety is a normal reaction of the body. Yet, it only becomes a disorder when the symptoms interfere with your daily life. Anxiety uses the fight, flight, and freeze response, which...

Did you know that Dyslexia, a condition where a person has difficulty processing language, also known as a reading disorder, is a very common learning disability in our world? It is said that less than 5% of the population suffer from it. It is an inherited condition,...

Headaches can be a real pain sometimes. It can really overwhelm us and take us off balance when such throbbing pain is going through us. About 1 in every 6 people complain about a headache in their everyday life. There are many reasons people experience headaches,...

It's such an exciting time, the holiday season! A time where we get to be with loved ones and friends. A time to give and receive. A time to share unconditional love with yourself and those around you. A time to enjoy and be in gratitude. It's a joyous time that we...

As we approach Valentine's Day, we all begin to think about our relationships with our significant loved one. Is your partner ready to commit a future with you or are they having commitment issues? There are many that fear commitment and it can easily be mistaken for...

It's the perfect season to go skiing at the moment, now that we are getting more rain and snow! It's that time of year where we can go out and engage in all these fun activities with our loved ones. Yet, for many skiing brings up fear and anxiety that won't let us...

It's almost Mother's Day and what a perfect time to think about children. Children are a blessing that come along to brighten our days and our everyday lives. As mothers, we get to celebrate on this special day with our loved ones and children. We get pampered and...

School can be very stressful for many students. Yet, exams can be a much more stressful event for them. The pressure that comes for upcoming exams around this time can take a toll on their health. The dreadful anticipation of these exams and the long nights of...

You may have heard a few of these life phrases: ‘Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful’, or ‘share your smile with the world’. It does truly go without saying, how wonderfully beautiful and magical a smile can have on the world. We all know that smiling...

There is a lot of anxiety and stress that everyone is experiencing at this moment. With school closures, lockdowns, mask mandates, and everything going on in the world, it’s easy to fall into a high stressed state, especially children. Children can show this anxiety...

Fear is a very strong feeling that sometimes can stop us in our tracks, especially when it comes to following our dreams. Fear can paralyze us from moving forward with what we want. It can also bring up other fears that are dormant within us such as fear of failure...

With the Covid-19 lockdown still being a very present force in all of our lives, it is essential to take a look at the struggles that this enforced isolation puts on us. Researchers and experts have stated that strict public health measures like lockdowns are...

Four and a half years ago, my family’s happiness and stability were blown apart when my beautiful daughter, Liora was taken ill out of the blue and tragically lost her life to an aneurysm and pneumonia at the tender age of twenty. The effect of losing my vibrant,...

Fear, anxiety, and phobias can be crippling, and stop many people from living full and happy lives. Avoiding scary emotions and situations is human nature, but when we start to experience fear in more mundane situations and try to hide from them, it often means we are...

Do you think our behaviors and experiences learned in childhood can determine our perception and mindset throughout our lives? Do you think it may lead to many struggles to live with what may seem to others as strange or peculiar fears or phobias, but which can be...

What does it mean to fear the unknown? What are some methods you can use to overcome your fears? Do you know the effects that this phobia can have on your life and the lives of your children? What Is A Fear Of The Unknown And How Does It Affect You? Life can be full...

Imagine this: nausea, cramping, faintness, rapid heartbeat, clammy palms, increasing levels of anxiety and panic. That’s how people with hemophobia, or a phobia of blood, feel when they see or even think about blood. It’s a phobia that’s associated with something that...

With all the information spilling in every day about the coronavirus and current affairs around the globe, the constant updates of infected cases and death tolls, many are finding it a challenge to stay positive or believe that things will get better. While we may not...

When it comes to taking tests and wrapping up the school year, some students breeze through it without a worry. However, some students might find it anxiety-inducing, frightening, or stressful. If your child feels the latter, they might need some help handling and...

For children, and some adults, a fear of sports might be linked to several other root causes including a fear of failure, a fear of losing, or fear of getting hurt. All of these fears and insecurities might contribute, or even combine, into a fear or phobia of sports....

Tantrums. Laundry. Work. Traffic. Finances. Emotional needs. Housekeeping. School. When you’re a mum, you might experience all of these stressors, and more, on a daily basis. Whether you have a dirty house, a hefty daycare bill, or trouble balancing work life and home...

For many children across the world, wetting the bed is a common childhood experience that, although unpleasant and upsetting to both parents and children, is sort of a rite of passage that many children go through at some point. For some children, it’s the result of...

The average Brit checks their phone 28 times a day, roughly once an hour, and it seems that we can’t stop. Our addiction to technology is only getting worse, and we have become solely reliant on how we use our phones, iPads and computers. Put it this way, without...

Travelling abroad, no matter where you visit has become even more popular and sought after than ever before. Ironically, it is now double, if not triple the price it once was when our parents travelled, and yet seeing the world has become a popular phenomenon with...

They say becoming a parent is unlike any feeling you will ever experience. It’s an unconditional kind of love that seems to just come into existence the minute you set eyes on your baby, and you automatically carry a sense and right to protect your child no matter...

Weight gain and weight loss is a constant battle which emotions – no matter how hard you try, we are constantly ruled by the way we feel. The way we feels controls our beliefs, our weight and everything that is around us. You attempt to tackle the reason behind your...

This time of year, whether you celebrate Christmas or not is a time for reflection; albeit positive and negative experiences you may have encountered throughout the year. It can be an incredibly hard time for you or your family and friends who may have experienced the...

Social media giant, Facebook has only recently announced their plan to tackle cyber-bullying with a £1million package which would be sufficient for every school in the UK to have a ‘digital safety ambassador’ to protect children from a new form of bullying. Facebook...

Millennials, also known as Generation Y, follow Generation X and are often representing those born in the early 1980’s and the mid 1990’s to early 2000s. Millennials are a tough nut to crack in society, having experienced a lot of change economically, socially and...

Suicide rates among fresh graduate vets are on the rise in the UK, and something must be done. Latest figures released by the British Veterinary Association (BVA), show that the UK’s 22,000 vets have a suicide rate almost four times higher than the national average....

Essential oils date back to ancient times when cultures such as China, Egypt, India and Southern Europe used oils as part of their embalming process. Essentials oils have been used to treat the dead for centuries, and we only know this because residues have been found...

A fear of public speaking is considered one of the most common phobias to affect many people on a day-to-day basis, whether it be speaking on the phone in front of another person, presenting your PowerPoint at work or at school, or giving a speech at a private event....

Halloween, or ‘the festival of the dead’, has a natural unpleasant fear and phobia associated with the festival known as samhainophobia. A mouthful we know -but it originates from ‘samhuin’ which means summer’s end. The festival itself was celebrated by the Celts, as...

We used to see clowns as funny entertainers who wore a big red nose, painted their faces white and wore an enormous polka-dot tie, larger-than-life shoes and fuzzy red hair. But thanks to Stephen King’s ‘It’ horror film that was released in the last week, a fear of...

There is an app for everything, no matter your qualm, desire, or need and living in the 21st century. Whether it be an iPhone or Android, each app store has the power to source whatever it is you need. Thanks to the power of the internet, and virtual reality, you can...

With just under a month to go before children of all ages go back-to-school, summer can be a joyful, but extremely nerve-wracking time for many kids – and their parents too. Parents have a lot to prepare physically for a return to school, with a focus on new uniform,...

A lot more millennials are choosing not to get married, but is there a reason? Marriage in some circles is increasing and in others, the thought of spending unnecessary wads of cash torments the very core of the individual. Marriage is meant to be about a bond of...

Madonna Known for pushing the boundaries for lyrical content, Madonna has proven she is a ‘material girl’ but as far from conventional as you would expect. And her phobia of thunderstorms is her ultimate demon – she suffers from astraphobia, which is the technical...

The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has recently revealed in the latest report that one in four young women, aged 16-24 suffer from mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. The data was found by researchers using surveys to collect information...

A fear of water – known as acquaphobia, is an interesting phobia for Brits, considering we live on an island surrounded by water. The only way of travelling abroad is to fly over a great big ocean, or to sail the seas to reach your final destination. So it can be a...

It can be incredibly easy to reach for your medication cabinet and grab the pill you know helps stabilize your anxiety, or an anti-depressant that controls your emotional and physical turmoil. But what a lot of patients can agree on is the uncontrollable reliance on...

Turophobia – Who doesn’t love cheese? Well, apparently quite a lot of people, as there is an official name for the phobia of anything cheesy. Sufferers usually associate this phobia with a traumatic memory, and even have to run away from the sight of a mozzarella...

As summer approaches, many of us will have that inner urge to travel the world, climb every mountain and experience the finer and most beautiful things in life. But, travelling doesn’t come without its anxieties. One of the biggest anxieties facing holiday-makers and...

The NSPCC, a charity that campaigns to protect and safeguard the children of the United Kingdom, last year released figures regarding the number of children seeking counselling about exam results; as the stress of GCSE and A-Level exams creep up around this time of...

Exam season is coming up, as students at secondary school and university prepare to for endless exams, stretching weeks over the summer period, having revised for months on end. There’s no easy way to prepare for exams, and whilst some thrive on last minute...

As the summertime approaches, with the clocks officially going forward in only a couple of weeks’ time, it is inevitable that as a family you will spend a lot more time enjoying the sunshine and taking advantage of rain-free Britain (hopefully). But it’s not all fun...

I am terrified of the thought of flying. I am terrified of the thought of boarding a plane. I am so terrified; I fear booking a flight abroad. These are the common thoughts that run through the mind of someone who has a fear of flying and it has become a somewhat...

Are you scared of reaching the point of no return; that stage in your relationship when your partner can picture your entire life together, but you can’t quite commit? It’s not an unusual feeling or fear to contend with. For a lot of people, relationships are a...

Interestingly, when you google the definition of ‘fear’, the result is an ‘unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain or harm’. What many of us often comprehend or perceive to be something we should be fearful of, is due to a lack of understanding and an...

Are you a woman who is struggling with overwhelm which is causing you a lot of stress? You have so much to do and too little time? You are trying to juggle home, work and family and you have no time for yourself? Do you find that: Your ‘to do’ list is getting on top...

Many people feel very nervous when they are higher that we are meant to be! This could be on a high building or, for some, even on a chair. But for some people that nervousness turns into a fear that is very debilitating and actually stops you doing things. When you...

Be aware that your fear of the dentist is normal. There is no reason to be embarrassed by your fear of the dentist. Many people around the world share this phobia. It shouldn’t keep you from getting proper dental care, which can have serious effects on your health and...