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Although feeling anxious from time to time is completely normal, it can often cause chest pains. These chest pains can make us feel even more anxious as they can mistakenly be associated with other conditions such as heart attacks.

Learning how anxiety can cause chest pains can be the first step in knowing how to treat them.

Are you looking to overcome procrastination? Are you stuck in a rut right now? Perhaps something needs to get done but you keep putting it off? Maybe you are distracted by life and even though you have a task or goal that is important, you just don’t know how to start? Possibly you feel overwhelmed at the thought .....

Notice this article is about overcoming anxiety and not eliminating anxiety entirely. The reason for that is anxiety is completely normal and keeps us safe. It is our relationship with anxiety that is often the problem, when we are triggered by events in our past or our future, and often we are unable to understand why this happens.

Trying to be the best we can be in certain areas of our life can be totally ok, but it is not healthy when perfectionism dominates our lives and we feel overwhelmed or paralysed. Perfectionism causes us to stay stuck in the idea that we cannot make mistakes, which can result in us saying “No” to new opportunities. 

Sleep anxiety is the fear or worry about going to sleep. It can happen for many different reasons and the thought of lying awake worrying at night may leave us feeling anxious about getting into bed. Sleep anxiety can affect adults, teenagers and children. I share my top 10 tips on how to manage your sleep anxiety here

Have you ever caught yourself saying hurtful or unkind things to yourself? Are you even aware of the thoughts that occur in your head, day in and day out? We start to believe what we say and it doesn’t take long to get into a downward spiral. I share my top tips on how to reframe thoughts and reduce your anxiety here.

We've all been there. When our minds are in overdrive, our thoughts jump from one subject to the next and we start fortune-telling and catastrophising about events that haven’t even happened yet. Our thoughts can be exhausting and paralysing, and keep us stuck. I share my top six tips on how to control your thoughts and reduce your anxiety here

Childhood bullying can cause anxiety in later life, and result in generalised or social anxiety, PTSD and panic attacks. Bullying  may impact almost every aspect of their lives leaving them feeling lonely, isolated, vulnerable, and anxious. Read what you can do to overcome the long term effects of bullying here.