If you’re feeling overwhelmed, you’re not alone. You’re overcome by intense emotions because something feels too stressful or too hard to handle. You’re snappy. You can’t concentrate. You want to shut down. Overwhelm is utterly uncomfortable, like you’re buried, drowning, completely defeated. No one wants to feel this way.
In Australia, around 15% of people aged 16–24 experience an anxiety disorder each year. From school exams and friendships to TikTok, these influential years can have a big impact on one’s mental health. As the parent of a teenager or young person who may feel anxious, it can be tricky to know how best to support them. In this article, Dr Jodie Lowinger, clinical psychologist, creator and author of The Mind Strength Method, and founder and principal of The Anxiety Clinic, provides a guide for parents.
Courageous parenting is not defined by the absence of fear, it’s simply choosing to allow your child to develop courage and confidence in themselves. Here are FIVE TIPS from the Mind Strength Method for how you can be a courageous parent.
Feeling a bit burnt out in the lead up to this holiday season? You’re not alone. This year has been overwhelming for many and with the festive season around the corner you might be sitting with a level of stress, unease, low mood or even burnout. So what can you do to move from anxiety and stress to resilience and recharge?
Fortunately, there are ways to successfully manage stress and anxiety throughout this busy time of year. Try the following four steps from the Mind Strength Method to help you to curb anxiety and stress, conquer worry and thrive through the festive season.
With final preparations for the HSC exams underway, students could be experiencing heightened stress or anxiety. We all know that this has been a particularly tough year for Year 12 students (and their parents!) with navigating lockdown and home-schooling, so it’s important to have strategies to overcome any exam anxiety. Here are our Nine Strategies to Overcome HSC Exam Anxiety.
This week I spoke to Karl and Allison on the Today Show about the anxiety people are feeling as we exit lockdown. Many of us have been through more than 100 days of lockdown and if you’re in Melbourne, many many more. With restrictions finally being lifted, many of us are thinking, why do I still feel anxious, nervous and general unease? Why don’t I feel myself? Rest assured that unease is a normal, natural part of a change of this nature.
