The start of a new year seems like the perfect time to take stock and make some changes – that’s why so many of us feel compelled to make New Year’s Resolutions. However, research shows that while we often get off to a flying start, by early February almost 50 per cent of people who […]

Men’s International Health is just finished. Did you know? Men live on average 5 years less than women Twice as many men die of skin cancer as women 72% of men admit to binge drinking However its not just men’s physical health which gives cause for concern: Northern Ireland has the highest suicide rate in […]

 There are many factors which contribute to poor sleep: doing too much; stress/anxiety; relationship difficulties; depression; poor diet; alcohol/substance misuse; lack of exercise and worry about lack of sleep. We can break the cycle of disturbed sleep by making some changes to our sleeping environment; to our behaviour and to our thinking.  Change your sleeping environment: […]

Fear and anxiety are normal emotions that all of us feel sometimes.  Difficulties arise when we get stuck in a cycle of anxious thinking and avoidance behaviour (we have anxious thoughts: ‘Something awful will happen’  and ‘I wont be able to cope’;  as a result we feel frightened; when we are frightened, the we tend to […]