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Pacing

Why One Holiday Won’t Fix Burnout: How to Build Rest into Your Everyday Life

Have you ever reached a holiday so utterly exhausted that all you could do was collapse, and then spend the first few days just trying ...
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Behaviour change

Overdone it in the garden?

Hands up who's overdone it in the garden? Is it inevitable? No, but it needs to be thought about differently
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Core strength

How to Choose Ease

When I see people trying to sort out their pain, I see them making their lives harder. Doing core exercises. Correcting their posture. Going to ...
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Behaviour change

Play your way out of pain?

It is easy to get stuck in the serious business of trying to relieve your pain. Like: Training one abdominal muscle  to fire more quickly  ‘Correcting’ ...
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Behaviour change

New Year’s resolutions? Use a one-in, one out system

I don’t know why we have to make life changes in the dark and cold of January in the UK. I go for ongoing microgoals. ...
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Anxiety

Why Telling Yourself to Relax is Useless

Telling yourself to relax is useless. Just as dogs don’t understand English automatically, your body doesn’t know what your instructions to yourself mean, unless you ...
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