Self-awareness Archives - Happy Being You

5 Reasons why making sense of your difficult emotions matters

by Ann Brown | May 18, 2023 | Self-awareness, Skills for Life

We all experience a wide range of emotions in our daily lives, whether we choose to tune into them or not. We tend to notice when we’re feeling ‘positive’ emotions such as happiness, joy or love. But many of us have a tendency to block out our ‘negative’ emotions,...

What your unhelpful habits say about you.

by Ann Brown | Mar 23, 2023 | Self-awareness, Skills for Life

We all like to feel that we’re in control of what happens to us and how we behave. But very often there are things we seem to do over and over. Even though we know they’re not helpful, we can’t seem to stop. Once you realise where these unhelpful habits really come...

The biggest lie you need to stop believing to be more confident.

by Ann Brown | Feb 2, 2023 | Self-awareness, Skills for Life

Life would be much easier and more fun if we were blessed with abundant confidence in all areas of our lives. But it seems that life blesses some people with natural confidence and others are left wanting to be more confident. We might look at people who appear...

7 Questions you should ask yourself if you “Need a holiday”

by Ann Brown | May 5, 2022 | Self-awareness

As soon as Christmas is over it seems, we’re inundated with holiday adverts on TV and in the media to entice us away. The lure of a holiday, to ‘get away from it all’, is so appealing, especially after the pandemic. We all could do with a break after the two years of...

The real reason behavioural therapy isn’t working for you.

by Ann Brown | Feb 10, 2022 | Self-awareness, Trauma

We all need help at various times in our life, and there’s no shame in admitting that we’re not coping very well. But if the type of support you choose turns out not to make any difference for you, or even makes things worse, then you have a choice. You can...

What counts as traumatic experience?

by Ann Brown | Nov 23, 2021 | Self-awareness, Skills for Life, Trauma

We’re surrounded by news reports about the tragic things that happen in our world. War, catastrophic floods, hurricanes wiping out entire villages. These things are so devastating we call them ‘traumatic’. We understand that word ‘trauma’ to mean something BIG. ...