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Jun 2
3 min

A Trip to the Hundred Acre Wood

Lessons from Winnie the Pooh and Friends Personally, I have always loved the characters created by AA Milne in his Winnie the Pooh books,...

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Fiona Harvie

Dec 19, 2019
3 min

Merry Christmas

- or is it? One week until the big day, many children will be excited and parents stressed. But we all dream about a happy family Christm...

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Fiona Harvie

May 8, 2018
1 min

Anxiety in Children

https://www.heysigmund.com/anxiety-in-children-things-kids-say-that-could-mean-im-anxious/

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Fiona Harvie

Feb 5, 2018
2 min

Antidepressants

Antidepressant use is growing and recent figures released by NHS England has lead to some unhelpful headlines. If you have mild to modera...

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Fiona Harvie

Feb 2, 2018
1 min

It's Good to Talk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42903914

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Fiona Harvie

Jan 23, 2018
2 min

Dementors

Fans of Harry Potter will be familiar with the Dementors, Dementors feed on human happiness and thus generate feelings of depression and ...

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Fiona Harvie

Dec 31, 2017
1 min

Happy New Year?

New Year is a time loaded with different emotions - for some it is a time to party, to be with friends and family. For others it is to ea...

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Fiona Harvie

Dec 16, 2017
3 min

Christmas Survival

Christmas is a time of the year that poses a number of challenges. We are bombarded with images of happy families, bright lights, food, ...

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Fiona Harvie

Nov 11, 2017
2 min

Is a diagnosis helpful or not?

In the past doctors sometimes did not tell their patients if they had a serious illness. This would now be deemed to be unethical as it w...

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Fiona Harvie

Oct 11, 2017
0 min

Why should I see a counsellor

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Fiona Harvie

Sep 16, 2017
1 min

Psychological Safety

Harvard Business Review have published a good article following a two year research project by Google on High Performing Teams. Within bu...

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Fiona Harvie

Sep 7, 2017
1 min

Feelings - we all have them

We all have feelings yet why do so many of us find it difficult to talk about them? I think that we need a language to enable us to expre...

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Fiona Harvie

Aug 27, 2017
1 min

Trauma

I've been thinking a lot about Trauma recently. In the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire there has been a lot of press coverage on the effe...

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Fiona Harvie

Aug 18, 2017
1 min

Musings at the Edinburgh Festival

A wet August day in Edinburgh during the busiest time of the year with the Edinburgh Festival in full swing. I started thinking about two...

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Fiona Harvie

Aug 10, 2017
1 min

Ending Stigma

The Heads Together campaign launched by the Duke and Duchess of York and Prince Harry has opened up conversations about mental health and...

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