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MindHealth by Sara Stevens

A podcast of the MindHealth Blogs written by Sara Stevens. Each weekly blog focuses on a different topic surrounding mental health. The blog will open you up to a whole new view of how we think, feel and operate. With anything in life, if we don’t understand it, we can often fear it, so this journey will enable you to not only understand yourself better but also allow you to become more empowered and in control of your mind.

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00:10:43

Cave Men

MindHealth by Sara Stevens ·

2024/04/30

Millions of years ago we lived completely on our instincts. No watches, phones, Google maps or Siri, back then. In fact, if we didn’t have our instincts we would never have made it to the 21st century, and in our world, we were not the biggest or scariest creatures; just think back to the time of the dinosaurs! 😱 Wow, I sometimes wonder how did we come this far? Well, I believe it’s our fight or flight response that has been our saviour.

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00:10:39

Down The Rabbit Hole

MindHealth by Sara Stevens ·

2024/04/10

My blog is taking you metaphorically down the rabbit hole, opening you to a whole new world of how we think, feel and operate at the deepest levels of ourselves. This blog will help you gain more understanding of your mind and for some of us, it will help to reduce the fears we have over our minds and what we store in them.

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00:12:26

Lasting Change

MindHealth by Sara Stevens ·

2024/04/10

The first step in any change is to come clean with yourself and stop living with the excuses and denial. I hear so many of these on a daily basis; “I will start tomorrow, I can’t do it, just the one, I lapsed so I just gave in, I am ok, I won’t do it again”. The list is endless, but I am sure we have all at one time or another said some of these things and convinced ourselves into thinking it’s ok to carry on.

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00:09:06

Obsessions

MindHealth by Sara Stevens ·

2024/03/22

We can all probably admit to having the odd obsession or two, I think this is normal and won’t have a massive impact on our lives. For example, if we have to have the certain thing in our home in symmetry or we have to do things in a particular way, maybe we like the tins all in order in our pantry, or the bed made just so, or we can’t relax until the kid’s toys are packed away. This can be a never-ending task with children, as soon as it's packed away, even if they haven’t used it in ages,

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00:11:09

Ritual

MindHealth by Sara Stevens ·

2024/03/11

The last blog on Superstition was looking at how superstitions can negatively impact our ability to be safe, secure and worry free. Today we are looking at rituals, which can develop from superstitions but can also be experienced on their own, even if you’re not superstitious. The word rituals can be seen as very religious in its meaning and also can be linked to witchcraft too, as many of our earliest rituals are imbedded in our ancient past. The word ritual means, 'a religious or solemn

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00:08:27

Superstition

MindHealth by Sara Stevens ·

2024/03/06

Most us have a few superstitions, but it doesn’t have a negative impact on our lives, but if we have let these habits get out of control, it can affect our anxiety levels and also stop us from being our true selves. The key to life is balance, not too much or too little; it can be a bit of a tightrope at times, but once we find ourselves and are true to ourselves, it’s easy. Superstitious behaviour links back to our ritualistic heritage, religions, and stereotyped behaviour patterns from the people

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00:08:33

Control

MindHealth by Sara Stevens ·

2024/02/20

Control is a confusing issue and for many of us we have got it in the wrong place in our head; if this is the case we can be causing ourselves lots of issues. Lots of people say to me that they don’t like being out of control - this can be situational, like being on a plane or in a meeting, it can be future based, for example, "Will I get the job?" or "Will I have enough money?", and it can be personal, "Do I have cancer or some deadly illness?", "Can I be myself

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00:07:58

Serial Worrier

MindHealth by Sara Stevens ·

2024/02/15

Do you find yourself unable to sleep, as you are worrying about what’s been happening that day, or what’s coming tomorrow? Do you worry about the smallest things? Do you blow things out of proportion? Do you feel unable to concentrate and focus on things because you're anxious? Do you feel on edge if things don’t go as planned, teary and emotional from anxiety? Or do friends and family comment on how much you worry? If this sounds like you, maybe you are a serial worrier and you have let your

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00:08:36

The Cat Lives On

MindHealth by Sara Stevens ·

2024/01/29

This is the next part. You may understand now that the learnt habits of worrying is something we are in control of and not a big scary issue out of our control. After decades of helping people to become anxiety free, one of the key factors is knowing that we can change and we don’t need to live this way forever. With your new-found knowledge, commitment to change and of course, like anything in life, a bit of work, you will start seeing a change in how you feel.

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00:08:47

The Cat is Back

MindHealth by Sara Stevens ·

2024/01/19

If a stray cat came to your house and you fed it, it would come back, and the more you feed it, the more it comes back. This is just like the habit of worrying, the more you worry about something, the more the worries grow and the more they will come back. If you keep feeding the cat, it will grow bigger and scarier, taking over your garden; this is the same thing that can happen with your worries. The pleasure is though, once you know this, you can start the process of change. The simple answer

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00:08:13

Don't Feed The Cat

MindHealth by Sara Stevens ·

2024/01/12

This is exactly how a habit grows. It starts with just a small thing, like feeding the cat.

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00:08:11

I Can't See The Cat

MindHealth by Sara Stevens ·

2024/01/06

This is another one in the series about anxiety and how we can be doing things unknowingly that could be part of your anxiety issues. Anxiety has a massive pull on our inner mind and can easily distort our perception of things. We can then start to find that we delude ourselves a little by maybe saying, "We’re not that bothered about going out or going on that trip" and we may say to ourselves "I think we will leave it. We’re far too busy, we can’t commit to the time off work, we

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00:10:00

Toxic

MindHealth by Sara Stevens ·

2023/12/16

We’ve all been around people that canelevate us, and then we can also have people that hinder our ability to be the best version of ourselves, just by the toxicity of the connections we have with them. We can often be afraid to speak up and confront those who produce toxic vibes, and this can then keep us in toxic relationships, friendships, or even jobs, due to this toxicity and how we can get trapped in the cycles it brings. The more we get upset and put down by these types of relationships,

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00:08:33

You

MindHealth by Sara Stevens ·

2023/11/17

Often, we can get focused on everything else, but at times it is important to bring the focus back onto you. We have to always be real with ourselves and not let denial or any level of non-acknowledgement of what we are doing or not doing get in our way. We need to see things clearly and if we’re not sure, we can just stop and think of someone who isn’t suffering from our issues, and if they are not doing some of the things we find ourselves doing, then maybe we need to rethink this. We need

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00:08:14

Flag

MindHealth by Sara Stevens ·

2023/11/10

Life is like a game of tug of war, in most, if not all our relationships and interactions, we all have our own agenda and hopefully, we all strive to be fair too. Confidence is a learned and developed habit, with this being the case it is super important that we create the right lines in every area of our lives, and then we can just “hold the flag” over everyone we interact with. But there is a fine line between give and take; one we need to uphold in balance for ourselves if we are striving to

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00:07:52

Carrots

MindHealth by Sara Stevens ·

2023/10/20

Last week we looked at when anxiety is at its worst, how it can immobilise us, and how the freeze response takes over how we feel and often negatively impacts our nervous system as well. We used the analogy of the rabbit, which is one of the best creatures we know to use the freeze response to stay alive, and how we can’t just shake the rabbit awake. At this point, their nervous system is shut down and is far too afraid to do anything for the fear of dying. You might think that last statement is

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00:08:21

Rabbit

MindHealth by Sara Stevens ·

2023/10/14

Anxiety is bad enough at any age in our lives, but when we should be living our lives to the full without the full pressures of adult life, it is, I feel, an even harder situation to go through. This week I had a young woman come in with her boyfriend, this young woman is an inspiration to us all. She has been battling with her childhood issues, and severe, demobilising, anxiety, for many years now. We have been having sessions for a few months now and making great progress, which is fabulous,

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00:06:28

Truth

MindHealth by Sara Stevens ·

2023/10/06

In the last blog, we were looking at the British stiff upper lip, and how we, as British people, have grown up with this. Now we need to explore this line of truth we have with ourselves, and how if we don't have this, it can cause lots of anxiety within us. A client came into my office today and we were talking about this, and I was explaining how this can trigger an anxious outburst from our unconscious minds. For myself, I always look at what we do and how this impacts our unconscious mind

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00:06:48

Lie

MindHealth by Sara Stevens ·

2023/09/29

The difference between a lie and the truth can be a very fine line. It is even right or wrong, black or white, a truth or a lie. It's great to be open and authentic but we all know in certain situations we can't always be this way. This is because we need to be diplomatic and considerate of others' feelings. We also have to hold back from the full truth and tell those white lies. Life is like this, and that is perfectly fine. I think for everyone we have had to approach life in these

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00:07:50

Be Me

MindHealth by Sara Stevens ·

2023/09/15

I think it can be very hard to be our true unique selves, as historically this has not often been possible, and we’re maybe holding onto those old patterns and habits. For many of us, our parents couldn't be who they wanted to be, and beyond that, it got more and more difficult to be ourselves. We still had slavery in 1865 in the UK, plus in many parts of our western world too, and before 1967 it was a criminal offence to be gay in the UK. Sadly, this is still illegal in parts of the world. A

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