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I share how happiness and wellbeing needs to be worked at on a daily basis to keep you well. This includes identifying the things you need to do to keep yourself well, from the basics of looking after your body and mind, to making the most out of your daily routine, to coping through tougher times. I discuss the importance of engaging in nourishing as opposed to depleting activities, and the crucial relationship between mood and daily activities. I also talk about the importance of identifying and honouring your co
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Similar to professional athletes, I share how you can improve your performance by visualising yourself being calm and confident during an exam, and feeling excited to RISE UP to the challenge ahead. I give your parents advice on trying to remain calm, on acknowledging your mixed feelings and most of all giving you lots of encouragement during this tough time. May the force be with you!
Published: alustforlife.com
Author: Dr. Malie Coyne
Exams are an unfortunate reality of life. An unnecessary evil some might say or a necessary rite of passage towards an important goal. It depends on how you look at it. The weeks before exam-time can be a really stressful time, which is totally understandable given the amount of pressure you may be experiencing. You are not alone in how you feel.
The weeks before exam-time can be a really stressful time, which is totally understandable given the amount of pressure you may be experiencing. You are not alone in how you feel. We discuss week 1 of my stress management course for students and parents. You may worry you haven’t studied enough, or that you won’t live up to people’s expectations. It doesn’t help that everyone talks about exams non-stop…
Published: Irish Independent
Author: John Brennan
Expert Opinion – Dr. Malie Coyne
“From an evolutionary perspective, where the caveman had to provide, and historically, where men were expected to defend during war times, boys and men were taught to be strong rather than be emotionally open or vulnerable,” “When boys are told not to cry and to ‘stay strong’, they can lose touch with their feelings..”
Published: alustforlife.com
Author: Dr. Malie Coyne
I remember looking into the mirror at my reflection next to her in the school toilets. She was small, thin-built, and pretty. Somebody all the kids hung around with. Standing next to her, I felt so big by comparison, overweight and spotty, definitely not pretty and definitely not popular. It didn’t help that I felt vulnerable at the time, lacking in self-belief, in “no man’s land”. I was 9 and we had moved from another country (another continent!). I felt like a fish out of water, a big one at that…
Published: alustforlife.com
Author: Dr. Malie Coyne
“Mental health issues are the great epidemic of this generation” were the impassioned words of musician and mental health campaigner Niall Breslin (Bressie) as he addressed the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children last week. “Agonising suicide rates, disturbingly high anxiety and depression rates, self-harm, eating disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder… young people are being exposed to too much… we simply cannot ignore this anymore”..
Published: alustforlife.com
Author: Dr. Malie Coyne
Parenting is a complete rollercoaster ride from conception to forever. Nothing can match up to creating a human being and witnessing their emerging personalities as they develop into proper little people learning about the world for the first time. Nothing compares to their little arms hugging you tightly for dear life.
Published: alustforlife.com
Author: Dr. Malie Coyne
I still have visions of me wheeling my trolley around the postnatal ward, looking in at my most precious baby girl, tears of joy and sadness streaming down my face. What was wrong with me? Why couldn’t I hold it together? The most amazing thing had just happened to me. The very thing I had been hoping for all of my life, to become a mother, and I just felt so overwhelmed, not in control of my emotions and petrified of the massive responsibility that lay ahead.
Published: alustforlife.com
Author: Dr. Malie Coyne
Dignity was the theme of this year’s World Mental Health Day on 10th October 2015. Dignity is defined as “the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect”. FOR ME DIGNITY MEANS acknowledgement and validation of feelings, no matter how difficult or intense they may be, and no matter what age the person is. Without validation, dignity simply cannot thrive.
