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Performance anxiety: I'll be delving into this topic, a topic that's close to my heart. I've written about this topic before (links to previous posts can be found at the ...

Reintroducing myself... Here's where I'm reintroducing myself. I'm Nonie Carr, Psychologist and this is Bindi my Kelpie, hopefully we'll soon be able to train as an Animal Assisted Therapy Team. ...

October is Mental Health Awareness month. We need to take care of our mental health and wellbeing. For some this might mean taking appropriate measures to manage a mental illness. ...

I've been listening to Florence + The Machine a lot recently… there's something about her music that just strikes a chord. In particular, I've been enjoying Free from her most ...

It's been a while since I've been active on my blog or on social media. But last week I decided I needed to give you more... More information about who ...

4 Recommended Psychology Self Help Books (plus a few extras) I teach clients a variety of ways to manage distress. Sometimes though reading something further can add a different dimension to ...

Cultivate equanimity to help with anxiety - Notice, Accept, Float Using meditation to cultivate equanimity can enable one to manage unpleasant or unwanted emotions in a way that reduces their ...

Forest on fire The bushfire recovery process will take time. And the government has recently announced a number of measures to support this recovery process. Areas of Australia have been ...

Thankyou GPs for doing all that you do for your patients... Mental Health Awareness Week Mental Health Awareness Week is about putting a spotlight on our mental health and what ...

Love Me Love You Foundation Cycling for a purpose. I'm a cyclist. I love cycling for a few reasons - Cycling is great for my fitness and health. Cycling is ...

Performance Anxiety Anxiety before a performance assessment can be hard to manage. Here are some tips that might help. Performance anxiety is not uncommon... and when you have to prepare ...

SELF-DOUBT & CONFIDENCE Who doesn't struggle? Here is one approach to managing self-doubt and stepping up anyway... stepping up into confidence. It's common to struggle with self doubt and a ...

Burnout? What self-care & wellbeing? Exhausted... burnout... Have to go to work, can't leave the desk for lunch, maybe skip eating altogether, need to work late, forget to eat dinner, ...

Best Psychology Podcasts Do you know which psychology podcasts are good to listen to? This blog post contains a list of psychology podcasts that give a some helpful or interesting ...

5 Things You Can Do to Manage Anxiety Today Breathe, breathe slowly Name your anxiety Evidence check Notice and let go of unhelpful thoughts Exercise 1. Breathe to Manage Anxiety ...

The elephant in the room… it’s that thing everyone knows is there but is ignoring. As we ignore the elephant it becomes more and more obvious. It starts to take ...

Ellen Jackson of Potential Psychology has recently written a blog that profiles Online Psychologists to follow in 2019. She has included a number of brilliant psychologists who work in the ...

Cyclcross is hard. Photo by Angel Santos (Unsplash) 'It never gets easier, you just get better', I've heard variations on this theme many times... As a cyclist the most common ...

Photo by Kinga Cichewicz, Unsplash I wish I slept better or more... It's not uncommon to want more sleep than we actually get. We might go to bed too late, ...

     Last weekend there were 2 major endurance events that friends and team mates competed in: the Tour of Bright (ToB) and Ironman Busselton. I am always impressed when ...

14 tips | Connect to Thrive Social relationships support good mental and physical health. These tips will help you to enjoy better interactions with the people you encounter, so you ...

Sometimes we just want to stop, lie down and take a break. We might feel like giving up. We might feel like what we're doing doesn't matter. We might feel ...

Yes, this post is a little late. But if you are following Enhance Life Psychology on Instagram (see the link at the bottom of the page) you would have seen ...

Wasn’t the weekend wonderful? And isn’t next weekend going to just as good... especially given we get an extra day in Melbourne?! But what about now? What about this moment ...

Kintsugi Kintsugi is the Japanese tradition of repairing broken pottery with gold. There are some lovely images that can be found of beautiful Japanese pottery that has been broken and ...

This is a collection of videos from the Enhance Life Psychology Facebook and Instagram accounts. I thought I'd collect them here into one blog post for those who might have ...

More about exercise, reaching your potential and enhancing your life. But this time in an audio format. Last week I was interviewed by the lovely Ellen Jackson for her Potential ...

How many times have you been told that you need to do some exercise? How many times have you responded with a "yeah, I know" and then done nothing, or ...

I recorded this video live on Facebook last night. I've written and recorded other livestreams about anxiety, but this is slightly different, while still drawing on techniques I regularly use ...

This article reflects some of the knowledge I obtained at the recent workshop I attended on Personalised Integrative Therapy. One of the factors that is considered in PI Therapy is ...

A few weeks ago I attended a two-day workshop on Personalised Integrative Therapy presented by Adrian Lopresti, PhD. Current treatment modalities for depression and anxiety have some efficacy, but meta-analytic ...

Sometimes asking for help when we're feeling depressed or anxious is just too hard. Sometimes we need others to come to us.  There have been 2 high profile individuals die ...

The Australian Psychological Society has decided to present a series of public lectures about mental health. The first lecture was by Dr Michael Yapko and was based around his most ...

  Therapy can be challenging. You have chosen to see a Psychologist because you're struggling with something. There are many reasons people seek help, some of these might be: anxiety, ...

Mindfulness can be difficult sometimes, but know that you can find these moments anywhere. I needed to take a break from sitting at my desk so I took myself for ...

International Day of Happiness 2018 Today is the UN International Day of Happiness. It was first celebrated in 2013 as a way to recognise the importance of happiness in people's ...

I spoke about sleep in a live video on Instagram earlier today. I thought it might be useful to post it here as well for anyone following my blog. I ...

I am aware that the articles published last week were focused more on the application of  mindset to cycling, with a particular focus on competitive cycling. I wanted to explain ...

Part 3 of 3: SO, WHAT IS MINDSET? This series of articles was inspired by a few conversations I had with women who are relatively new to racing as well ...

PART 2 OF 3: I WANT TO RACE WELL. WHAT DO I DO NOW??? This series of articles was inspired by a few conversations I had with women who are ...

This series of articles was inspired by a few conversations I had with women who are relatively new to racing as well as a conversation in SheRace; SheRace is a ...

Do you struggle with an unhelpful internal monologue? Do you often catch yourself telling yourself that you’re just not good enough, or can’t do ‘that’, or will never do ‘that’? ...

Many people use apps as their first attempt to manage their mental health concerns. It can be less intimidating to try an app first... sometimes it's because of a fear ...

On Monday this week I did a live-stream on FaceBook. In this video, I have outlined a little of my history and how I came to psychology and in particular ...

Here's the follow-up to my previous live-stream video... This time I'm talking about how we can use breathing to assist in the management of our anxiety. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvwBtXImivI For a written ...

Do you know what anxiety is? Do you feel worried, stressed, nervous, tense, scared or fearful, concerned, shakey, apprehensive, uneasy, agitated, trepidatious, or perturbed? Do you have the jitters, the ...

Many of us welcome easy access to technology, lured by the promise of better connection with others, greater engagement and a more efficient life. But psychological research confirms that social ...

Do you know how to listen to and sit with someone who is struggling? It can be difficult and uncomfortable to sit with someone else's discomfort. Here are a a ...

What is mindfulness? A growing body of evidence suggests that the practice of mindfulness, which originates from Buddhist methodologies, may improve both mental and physical health, and could improve our ...

I recorded this vlog a few days ago. I spoke about pain and the factors that can affect our experience of pain. https://youtu.be/l6spfXJGznE This is also posted on the Enhance ...

Do you know what mindfulness is? Here's a short video that explains what mindfulness is. https://youtu.be/CaZzf4hU7-0   I've also shared it on the Enhance Life Psychology Facebook page. I will ...

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3 Ways To Manage Anxiety With Your Breath You know that feeling… you can't breathe… your heart is racing… your palms are sweaty… you’re feeling shaky… you need to get ...