Break It Down: Deep Breathing – A Practice Guide

Today on Break it Down, we explore deep breathing with Chartered Counselling Psychologist Dr Tamara Vaughan of Mind Health Psychology; Deep breathing The idea around deep breathing exercises is that they help to activate the ‘parasympathetic nervous system’ – this is also known as the ‘rest and digest system’ (i.e. the opposite of the fight […]

Break It Down: How To Manage Feelings of Depression During and Post Lockdown?

The word ‘depression’ is often used colloquially, so you might hear someone saying ‘I felt so depressed after that argument’ and often what they mean is that they felt sad or fed up. Depression in the clinical sense is more than feeling sad in response to something. Clinical depression is really a cluster of symptoms […]