by Sallie F Crawley | Mar 4, 2019 | Confidence, Energy, Hope, How to, Smoking
Are you ready? Change is one of the constants in your life and getting ready to quit smoking signifies the start of your journey. Over 20 years ago two alcoholism researchers, Carlo C. DiClemente and J. O. Prochaska, developed a model of change to help with addiction...
by Sallie F Crawley | Jan 26, 2019 | Direction, Energy, Hope, Smoking
How long have you smoked? Being a smoker since the age of 14 it took my heart attack at 52 to make me decide once and for all to quit smoking. I had heard and read about some of the facts, the good reasons to quit, but it hadn’t made a difference until it happened to...
by Sallie F Crawley | Jan 4, 2019 | Confidence, Direction, Emotions, Energy, Hope, How to
The next couple of activities come from my feeling good handbook. They are about how to help yourself and help others as you recover after a heart attack and stents. They are about how our shared experiences can boost the feel good factor in ourselves and the people...
by Sallie F Crawley | Dec 28, 2018 | Acceptance, Emotions, Energy, Hope, How to
Continuing on from my last post How to feel good for 12 days at Christmas, I am reminded it’s not just at Christmas time that you can feel overwhelmed. Maybe it’s going on holiday; the planning, the packing, the arrangements, going away and then coming...
by Sallie F Crawley | Oct 21, 2018 | Confidence, Energy
Have you noticed that sometimes you get compliments and you’re not sure why? It can often be when you are wearing something you have had in the wardrobe for years. I hear myself saying ‘what this old thing’. Self-care was never high on my agenda I had been feeling...
by Sallie F Crawley | Oct 6, 2018 | Confidence, Emotions, Energy
Many people experience anxiety and stress, along with depression following a serious health issue such as a heart attack. As part of rehabilitation the team may recommend managing stress as one of your risk factors. Using therapies and techniques such as Hypnosis, NLP...
