Five services to help you deal with COVID-19 isolation

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Things are a little different to your usual routine right now. But that doesn’t mean that isolation has to be a trying or anxiety inducing time.

I recommend the following services to complement your online counselling sessions and help with stress management during the COVID-19 restrictions and beyond.

The importance of the aha moment

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You might also know the aha moment as an epiphany. There are other similar terms that you may have also heard for a similar concept: leaps of thought, the Eureka moment, conscious insight and snap resolutions of the divided self. Or, more subtly it might show up as a recurring thought or feeling. It might appear as noticing an outdated or limiting belief that had previously run quietly in the background. But now with a newfound awareness, you start to question it. It could present as self enquiry with questions such as: 

Go slow – the benefits of slowing down

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If you have been following my enewsletter or my social media channels, you know that I have been recommending slow living. This concept of slowing down is about allowing yourself to have a slow morning or a slow weekend. Rather than succumbing to the busyness that our lifestyles and modern culture seems to dictate. 

20 wellbeing tips

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Here is my easy guide with a collection of wellbeing tips.

Ten Tanya truisms

1. Your most precious commodity is your time.

2. Stop rushing and wholeheartedly give yourself permission to be slow.

3. Self care is actually a decision.

4. Meditation is the antidote to stress and overwhelm.

Don’t try meditation when you are depressed!

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As someone devoted to meditation, both as a personal practice as well as a teacher and facilitator for more than twenty years, I will be the first to admit that it’s not always going to be an everyday practice. What’s more is that it is essential to know when it can be and when it’s best to steer clear!