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Discover insightful articles designed to empower, educate, and inspire you on your path to improved mental wellbeing

Our Helpful Articles page offers a selection of expert-written content covering a range of topics, from managing anxiety and improving relationships to understanding the benefits of therapy. These resources are here to guide you in making informed decisions about your mental health.

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Raising Your Self-Esteem

One of the most frequent issues people bring when they make enquiries at Birmingham Counselling Services is how to deal with low self-esteem. We hope that this article will give you some insight into the ways of dealing with it.

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Cooking Up Stress Relief

Perhaps it shows through your fidgeting, your nail-biting, or your sleepless nights. You feel as if you are under a great deal of stress, and you are searching for relief. While there are many stress reduction strategies you could use,

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Building Self Esteem

Self esteem is your own personal view of yourself, physically, mentally, and emotionally. We all have different views of ourselves, but keeping a positive outlook will benefit you more than a negative one. Too many people have developed low self

Keeping calm, and getting things done when on the phone with call centres

For most of us, making a telephone call is something that we need to do almost every day, and on some days it may be the case that we need to make quite a few calls. The prospect of spending

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Exercise: The Ultimate Stress-Reliever

Perhaps it’s the result of having a new job, a new friend, a new partner, a new baby. You are overwhelmed with a feeling of excitement yet you feel inadequate as well – you are under stress. At times you

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Pamper Your Body! Have a Massage! Get Rid Of Stress!

Stress can prove to be disastrous to our everyday routines. If your body reaches its limit then it will let you know in ways that will make it difficult for you to continue with your normal life. Before this happens

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Dating with Confidence

A first date can be a nerve-wracking experience for many people. After all, you could be meeting your future partner. You might be feeling very vulnerable. The point of dating is usually to get to know someone else on an

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Are You Stressed Out by Your Marriage?

You might remember when you saw your future mate for the first time, or the moment you realized that this was the person you were going to marry. Those memories are special reminders of the excitement of a new relationship,

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FREE WORKSHOP: How To Improve Your Relationship in Less Than Five Minutes a Day

FREE WORKSHOP How To Improve Your Relationship in Less Than Five Minutes a Day ! Date : Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 Time : 5.30 – 7.30 pm Venue : The Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham B9 4AA With: Geoff Thompson,

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Confidence building: How to dine alone.

Now here’s something I haven’t touched upon when writing for the website about confidence and stress: the ‘art’ of eating out alone. An ultimate test of confidence levels. Eating at home is a completely different matter, as we are away