by Wesley Macintyre | Apr 11, 2022 | Anxiety, Psychology, Thinking
Leon Festinger plays an important role in your life, even if you’re not aware of it. Festinger’s theory of cognitive dissonance refers to the internal discomfort we feel in moments of conflict between our attitudes, beliefs or behaviours. This dissonance is...
by Michelle Nortje | Feb 8, 2022 | Anxiety, Depression, Procrastination, Relationships, Stress, Thinking
We very often automatically believe our thoughts and take them as fact. However, we all sometimes get stuck in the habit of unhelpful thinking patterns, or taking mental short cuts, that aren’t actually based on reality. These cognitive distortions tend to confirm our...
by Wesley Macintyre | Feb 7, 2022 | Anxiety, Depression, Self-Care
Horror films. We stream them knowing the jump scares are coming; that we’ll lose half our fingernails and our hearts will race a million miles an hour. But we accept it and make space for it knowing there will be something valuable to come out of it. Entertainment....
by Wesley Macintyre | Dec 17, 2021 | Anxiety, COVID-19, Lockdown, Psychology
Why am I so lazy? I feel like a bad friend. I just don’t have it in me today. How are they seeing this many people? I use to do this every weekend. Why is it so hard now? In general, us humans are fairly predictable. Our schedules might change between school and uni,...
by Jennifer Chu | Dec 17, 2021 | Anxiety, Psychology, Stress
You step into your local supermarket, and notice that you are surrounded by millions of chocolates wrapped in green and red. Yes, it’s that time of the year again. This time of the year could bring great joy, as well as great stress, sometimes. Here are a few guides...
by Valerie Ling | Oct 5, 2021 | Anxiety, COVID Care, COVID-19
As we embrace the date for more freedoms in NSW, you may be detecting levels of apprehension about moving back out into the world. A phenomenon known as re-entry anxiety, or reverse culture shock, it is the experience of re-engaging in a formerly known existence after...
