Aspire Therapy

Keeping That Feel-Good Factor When Summer Ends

So have you managed to get your work-life balance in order this summer?

It may have been a damp August - and a damp July for that matter - but time out from work will still have helped many people to regain a sense of equilibrium in their lives. And if you were lucky enough to have travelled abroad then the weather here won’t have mattered anyway.

Often it is only when we get completely away from the scenery and settings of our everyday lives that we fully achieve a state of calm and clear-headedness.

The problem we have is how to maintain this sense of equilibrium as we return to our daily routines and our jobs. Sadly, by November, things can be looking very different again.

A combination of Life Coaching and Hypnotherapy can provide an excellent way of dealing with stress and maintaining that ‘feel good’ factor. Hypnotherapy can provide the relaxation techniques while life coaching helps to decide upon priorities and set realistic goals.

Work...and the Thought of Work: There is a Difference

One of the major contributors to stress is workload, particularly in professions such as teaching and nursing. The more work a person does the more it seems there is to do.

There are of course ways in which we can ease that load - by working more effectively and setting strict limits on the time we give to chosen tasks; by prioritising and using lists to free our minds up; by making distinctions between the quality use of time and its ineffective use.

Still though, teachers will argue that there is no way that they can reduce their workload – the marking just has to be done.

Sometimes, however, workload can be confused with the amount of thinking we do about work.

The Teacher who Beat Stress and Sleeplessness to Gain ‘a totally different view of who I am’

Sylvia came to us for hypnotherapy because she was suffering from severe stress as a result of her job as a teacher and manager in a Lancashire college. She had also suffered a blow to her confidence when she had to give up her management responsibility.

Following six sessions of hypnotherapy she found herself able to ‘look ahead with a totally different view of who I am’.