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Coping when life sucks
Let’s face it, sometimes life really sucks and it feels like you are never going to be okay or you will never cope and things will always be this bad. I will tell you what I know about getting through...
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World Aids Day
How did it get to be December? And suddenly it is World Aids Day. I have been involved in HIV education and counselling since 1993 and it is a totally different world today compared to how we dealt...
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Calming memories
Yesterday was my grandmother’s 100th birthday and with the celebration came a rush of memories. I have so many good memories of my grandparent’s house in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The ones I remember most...
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Fighting the anxiety monster
When you get stressed or anxious, one of the feelings that you may feel is being overwhelmed, feeling that your life is out of control or that you feel distant from the world around you (almost like...
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Finding the beauty in tragedy
This week started horribly with the death of my granny. Although she was 100 years old, it is still sad to lose a loved one. Something so beautiful came out of her death though. Distant cousins who I...
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Is it your disaster?
It’s easy to get caught up in all of the drama of the disasters and bad news in the world. And the media delight in sharing the worst of the news with us. Social media also drives us into a mass...
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Coping with feeling overwhelmed
Stress can make you feel so overwhelmed that you feel like you are going to blow up or that you want to hibernate or run away forever. There isn’t an easy answer to dealing with such huge problems but...
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Take a compliment
I work with people daily who have extreme work stress and almost across the board they have the same complaint. They never get recognised for the good that they are doing but if they do something...
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One of the most difficult things to deal with when life gets really stressful is trying to get ‘control’ back. By control we mean getting life back to where we feel familiar with what we are doing. We...
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Having control over our lives is what we all want. Having control is what most of us don’t have. We fantasize about it, we dream about it, we work hard at getting it back yet it seems that there are...
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