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Could it be autistic burnout?
While we are all unique, this diagram may help you to decide if autistic burnout, rather than depression, is behind the challenges you...

Janet Akins
Mar 31 min read
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Existential Anxiety: Living with Life’s Uncertainties
Unlike everyday anxiety, which typically relates to imagined outcomes, existential anxiety can emerge when we wrestle with life’s bigger...

Janet Akins
Oct 29, 20242 min read
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Calming the mind: Anxiety and Body Process
Anxiety can impact anyone, but it is particularly prevalent in those of us who spend a lot of time ‘in our own heads’ or who could...

Janet Akins
Oct 29, 20241 min read
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Paradoxical Theory of Change
I cannot resist sharing with you one of the counselling concepts that I find most powerful in therapy. The paradoxical theory of change...

Janet Akins
Oct 4, 20241 min read
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Living by invisible rules
Do you often find yourself thinking ‘I should’ or ‘I ought’? Perhaps accompanied by feelings of inadequacy that you are failing to meet...

Janet Akins
Oct 4, 20241 min read
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Building a new relationship with anxiety Part 2
When you feel your anxiety rise, there are short term strategies that may reduce it in the moment: distractions (e.g., focussing on a...

Janet Akins
Oct 4, 20241 min read
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