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Originally posted on June 28 2018 at https://theskillcollective.com/blog/psychological-flexibility-relationships Just like a rigid muscle can cause pain and restrict our range of movements, so can psychological rigidity – fixed thoughts and patterns of behaviour can have a negative impact on our relationships. Fixed thoughts could sound like “I must not let others down” or “My partner…

Originally posted on April 25 3018 at https://theskillcollective.com/blog/mindfulness-at-work Staying on track at work can sometimes seem like a monumental task. Faced with a busy workload, your mind can fill with worries and anxieties – about how stressful work is, about the items on your never-ending To Do list, about challenging conversations with colleagues, and even…

Written by Farah Gulamoydeen for The Skill Collective, published on July 17, 2017 http://theskillcollective.com/blog/thinking-styles-at-work How we think has a dramatic impact on how we feel – indeed, the very definition of stress (when the perceived threat exceeds perceived available resources) relies on our perception of a situation. While we’ve blogged previously about how our thoughts…

Written by Farah Gulamoydeen for The Skill Collective. Published on 24 July 2017 http://theskillcollective.com/blog/psychologist-work-issues Many of us probably wouldn’t think about seeing a psychologist for work-related problems. Yet, since we spend the majority of our adult years working – around 90,000 hours over our lifetime – work issues are bound to arise at some point…

This article was written by Farah Gulamoydeen and was published at The Mind’s website in April 2017. I was exposed to ACT when I moved to Australia. As a trained CBT therapist, I found ACT to be unappealing because mindfulness, a major component in ACT, felt like a bunch of fluff that didn’t do anything!…