The Lianne Terry Counselling Blog

Why does fear of failure develop? A lot of my adult life I was impacted by fear of failure, which led to procrastination, avoidance and general anxiety. This week I’ve done some research into the reasons why fear of failure develops. Some of the reasons that it come...

You may have noticed that I’m going to come in here next week to talk about attachment, so what is attachment? Attachment refers to the emotional bond or connection that forms between a child and their primary caregiver, typically in the early years of life. This bond...

As I talked about in my live yesterday, grounding techniques can be helpful for managing stress and anxiety. Here are five tips for grounding: Deep Breathing: Take slow, deep breaths. Inhale for a count of four, hold for four, and exhale for four. Focusing on your...

Managing emotional triggers is an important skill for maintaining emotional well-being and healthy relationships. Emotional triggers are situations, words, or actions that provoke strong emotional reactions in us, often leading to feelings of anger, frustration,...

People are always surprised that I don’t like cheesecake, because generally I love all things sweet! But Cheesecake is the one sweet thing, that I won’t even entertain. When I was about 5 years old, I was forced (I don’t mean physically – I mean pressured by an adult)...

1. Be Active Whilst I’m not a massive lover of exercise, it is a really good stress reliever and can really help to reduce some of the emotional intensity you may be feeling and clear your mind. It can really help you to feel calmer and work some of your stress off....

Stress can impact your relationship in many ways: 1. If you bottle your stress up and keep it to yourself, your partner may not understand what you are going through and so not provide support. 2. You may get stuck in a negative cycle of reacting to each-others stress...

It has become very easy to compare ourselves as parents to other parents, so for me seeing people’s clean houses and clean children, makes me feel like I’m failing somehow. Then there are the constant questions: Am I getting it right? Am I messing my children up? Are...

For me, since becoming a Mum, it’s been really important to maintain my identity, and not just get lost in being Esmé and Elodie’s Mummy. And there have been things that have really annoyed me throughout that, such as health visitors and others calling me “Mum” erm…....

I think the honest answer to this is that you can’t always stay 100% balanced when you have children, but the following are a few tips I’ve put together that hopefully will help a bit: 1. Stay in your own lane – As I talked about the other day it’s really easy to...