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If Christmas has left you feeling low, stressed, or emotionally drained, counselling can help you reflect, heal, and move into the new year.

Counselling can help to get rid of negative thoughts and reduce the amount of time spent procrastinating. Clients will learn how to manage their symptoms. There are some good role models who have ADHD and are able to hyper focus which can drive them to achieve and be successful in business, entrepreneurs like Richard Branson, Jaimie Oliver and Athletes like Michael Phelps, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and Jackie Stewart.

Emotional Therapeutic Counselling can be an effective way to help people improve their mental health and sleep

Whilst the internet has been one of the most useful pieces of modern technology, it has created monsters in its social media platforms by allowing cyberbullying to get out-of-control in the 21st century. The aim of social networking is to bring people together, to instantly connect with others e.g., instant messaging, email, or text messaging.

Earlier this year I started a course, the Foundation for Emotional Therapeutic Counselling at a reputable centre in the idyllic setting of Cheltenham.

Understand that divorce is not supposed to be easy and because it is so hard, you must be kind to yourself. Allow yourself time to work through the depths of your divorce and to accept that the process is going to take time. Over time you will heal and showing compassion to yourself will help with your recovery. It is ok to feel sad and to give yourself permission to grieve your loss. Focusing too much on the sadness will keep you stuck in that place and so it is important that you manage this.

When parents split up, the burden on the children is immense and sadly they often blame themselves for the breakup. The absolute worst thing that a parent can do is to bad mouth the other parent to the children. Doing so puts the children in an impossible position and they start to question ‘am I allowed to love them?’. The child feels they are being disloyal for loving the bad parent. Running mum or dad down to a child is a direct criticism of their own DNA as they are the product of both parents.

Going through divorce can be overwhelming and isolating. Day to day living becomes a struggle, especially if you have children. Coping with your children’s emotions as they face their own issues with the separation of their parents and the challenges of school life adds to the stress and anxiety caused by the divorce