Healthy Lifestyle

Breaking Negative Habits of Behaviour – Part 3

To break the pattern, you will need to recognise that you need to break it, get support or follow the steps to break it, and want to break it. If you have been actively working on the pattern you want to break and noting down your answers, you will have the information you need to get yourself started and break your pattern. If you want to break you pattern and haven’t been asking yourself the questions honestly or noting your answers, then I suggest that you do this now. Read the rest of this entry »

Breaking Negative Habits of Behaviour – Part 2

When we start to display the behaviour on a regular basis (either publicly or privately), it becomes a pattern, and patterns are familiar. Once a behaviour becomes familiar, our feelings towards it change. Perhaps when you first did it you felt pleasure, relief, safety, shock, or anger at yourself for having done it. Once it becomes a pattern, these feelings are dulled. They are still there, but dulled. So you may have that nagging voice in your head telling you that you ‘should’ do something about this, but the feeling you feel is rarely strong enough to move you to action. So you continue. Read the rest of this entry »

Breaking Negative Habits of Behaviour – Part 1

Do you ever feel stressed out because you keep repeating the same mistakes? Do you gravitate towards people who seem to mistreat or take advantage of you? Do you want stability in your life but seem to make decisions that take you further away from that? Perhaps you want to break a habit but never seem able to really shake it. Do you know what you need to do to promote your health, but just seem to do the opposite? Whatever mistake you feel you are repeating, it can be wearing to have to face up to it again and again. Read the rest of this entry »

STOP: Take Stock Of Where You Are Right Now!

Are you finding life stressful right now? Do you feel like you are getting nowhere fast? Is your life, health, or business feeling complicated right now? Finding it hard to find a solution? Perhaps you feel that you are on the road to burnout but feel that you have to carry on? Maybe it’s time to stop and take stock of where you are right now! Read the rest of this entry »

Treat Yourself To A Day For You!

Do you need a well deserved break from the pressures of life? Has your body been giving you signs that you need to take care of it a little better? Do you usually keep going, putting everyone else first? Do you find it hard to treat yourself sometimes? Read the rest of this entry »

Too Stressed For Stress Management?

Being stressed out has become synoymous with breathing for some people and their acceptance of it can lead some to view it as a norm to be maintained. Some people feel that being stressed is an indication of them being hard-working and so they resist ways to relax. Relaxation is seen by some as a luxury and they feel guilty when they take some time out for themselves. So what is stress management all about and is there any sense in being too stressed for stress management? Read the rest of this entry »

Feel Good and Be Successful!

Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Are you looking for a way to manage your stress effectively? Do you want to get on with your life but find that things seem to keep getting in the way? Do you have a long term health condition that you would like to manage more effectively? Perhaps you would like to start or have started your own business and need to stay on top of things. Whatever your circumstances, feeling good is the way to be successful and this could be the starting point you need! Read the rest of this entry »

Reclaiming Control Over Your Life!

Do you feel that you don’t know where you life is going right now? Do you feel at the mercy of others? Are you just waiting to see what will happen? Do you feel that things just aren’t right? Is your conscience bugging you because you aren’t living your life according to your deepest values? Perhaps it’s time to reclaim control over your life! Read the rest of this entry »

“I Feel Like Myself Again!”

Here at Proactive Wellness we offer health and wellbeing coaching to empower others to be the best they can be and achieve the results they want to see in their lives. As coaching is quite a new and unfamiliar source of support, Melanie A. Forde interviews one of her clients, Emma Pearson so that our readers can gain insight into what coaching could be like for you. Emma shares her experience: Read the rest of this entry »

Relax – Take A Mental Holiday!

Have you had a holiday this year? Are you refreshed from it or did you come back feeling like you needed another holiday? Maybe you haven’t had a holiday and desperately feel like you need one! How can you take a holiday in your own home? How can you take a holiday from your life for a while? Relax and take a mental holiday! Read the rest of this entry »