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Anger Management Self Help – Learn to Control Your Anger Before it Controls You

Do you know how to deal with your anger in everyday situations? All of us get angry once in a while, it’s a necessary emotion triggered by the human’s “fight or flight” mechanism. Learning to cope with anger before it goes to far is extremely important for your mental and physical health. These health problems could include heart disease, stroke, or even depression. Continue reading →

Anger – Does Counseling Help

It takes some time for someone who gets angry frequently to finally get their senses up and start visiting any help they can get. A good way to start off may be a local doctor, but in most of the time the doctor will send you to a counselor to help you in controlling your temper. Continue reading →

Career Development and Counselling Over 50

Changing careers after 50 is not easy but it is possible. Over 50s know they have a lifetime of transferable skills and experience that can be applied in different contexts. The challenge is to convince others that those skills and experience are just what they need. To make a successful transition it is important to realize that you are marketing a product and that product is YOU. Like any marketing, the perception of the product must be carefully managed to give it the best possible chance of success, and you need to be certain that it is being marketed to the right people. Continue reading →

How to stop being annoyed

Do you ever get annoyed at work? Your colleagues are carrying on and for some reason it just starts to get under your skin – may be the annoyance occurs for reasons that you just can’t explain. Well this is exactly what happened to me yesterday at work. I’d like to share with you what I did to overcome the annoyance. Continue reading →

How technology can help with anger

Visual reminders offer a powerful way to assist us change our behaviour. Many of the people I work with as a counsellor are looking for easy to apply and effective techniques that they can try in addressing their anger issues. The purpose of this article is to provide a step by step guide as to how technology can be used as a visual tool for anger behaviour issues. Continue reading →