We all know that feeling of being nervous or uncomfortable in social settings. You might have noticed your palms getting sweaty when you meet someone new, or having ‘brain freeze’ when giving a presentation at work. Public speaking, walking into a room full of strangers...
By Kelsie Bufton One of the most difficult things in the interactions we have with others is knowing how to get want we want, whilst maintaining strong and healthy relationships. When we don’t have the right skills, it can be so easy for conversations to get...
By Ishma Alvi. To state that a pandemic has had life-altering effects is no over-statement, simply an acknowledgement of fact. To state that some of those alterations have been uncomfortable at best and devastating at worst is also a statement of fact. COVID-19 and everything that...
Dr Ceylan Celen is one of our psychologists here at Vida Psychology. In this podcast, she shares how DBT, a type of cognitive behavioural therapy, is helping her patients manage PMDD. There are many strategies shared in this episode and we speak about one of the...
By Sabrina Brient. Language helps us to communicate and connect and to construct and express our identities. Language lets us create labels that we can share with others and build communities. As culture grows and changes, so too do the language and labels that we use. It...
By Ishma Alvi Social media seems to be rife with people musing on increased sex drives, joking about maternity wards being over-run in nine months and about how the combination of increased free time and being almost constantly on-line is increasing porn consumption and masturbation. However,...
By Ishma Alvi Being forced to cohabit in a single space with a partner, without the relief of a change of environment or company, is stressful. Stressful for a number of reasons. For one thing, the average human being typically buys in to the well-established myth of...
By Lucimey Lima Although the adjectives of this title seem to be contradictory, as ‘lovely’ and ‘challenging’ can be hard to imagine when describing a single phase of life. However, these two words and the feelings they represent co-exist in how a family can experience a...
Here’s a relationship myth that seems to have been missed in past articles and it’s quite a big one (sorry for the oversight!): ‘Love means never having to say you’re sorry.’ This myth needs to be busted, once and for all, as it can be...
Strong, meaningful relationships help us on the path to wellness and satisfaction. Our ability to improve our connections increase when we take time to get to know ourselves, and others, better. One of the ways we can cultivate this is with mindfulness. This allows us...