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Life balance
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What does it mean to have life balance?

When we talk about life balance we often tend to think about work-life balance.

 

In reality, life balance is much bigger than this and incorporates not only aspects of our work and private life but also those activities and inner spaces we keep for socialising, creating, learning, caring, dreaming, praying or contemplating deeper or more satisfying layers of our life experience.

Work-Life Balance

This most basic form of balance to describe often proves the hardest to achieve.

 

Work-life balance involves the establishing of healthy, distinct boundaries between your work-day activities and your leisure time pursuits.

With technology everywhere  and our phones keeping us constantly connected, there can be a blurring between work time and play time.

 

It can be challenging to switch off from all the information which is constantly entering our minds in one form or another.

 

 

Due to COVID, more and more people continue to work from home and this is likely to be an increasing trend.

With this, come theoretical opportunities to create more time in the working day for things like exercise and relaxation.

 

Equally though, come potential risks from ever-decreasing boundaries between times spent in and away from work.

Interestingly, recognising you have a work-life imbalance is often difficult. This is because we have a natural psychological tendency to minimise areas of potential conflict in our life.

 

Our first sign that something is wrong might be a comment from a partner, child or work colleague.

 

Another sign could be physical ill-health, sleep disturbances or increasingly negative mental and emotional states of mind.

Pathways Psychotherapy and Counselling in Brighton & Hove can help you find solutions to problems with life balance.
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signs that something in your life might require re-balancing:

Constantly bringing work home with you or working late into the night

Cancelling plans with friends or avoiding after-work socialising to ensure you get all your work done

Frequent nightmares about being in precarious or highly stressful situations

Tense muscles and grinding teeth at night

​Losing your temper with loved-ones or colleagues

Diarrhoea, constipation, irritable bowel symptoms or heartburn

Headaches or migraines

Drinking more coffee or alcohol than you suspect is good for you

tALK TO a counsellor ABOUT ISSUES OF BALANCE AND FLOW

Your life-balance, like everything about you, is completely unique.

There is no right and wrong.

 

What feels like too much work-time for one person feels like too little for someone else.  

 

What matters is that you are aware of where you're directing your energy and what that might mean for other areas, people, and important priorities in your life.

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how counselling and psychotherapy can help with life balancing

A counsellor can help you to become aware of areas in which you’re currently struggling to maintain stability.

At Pathways Brighton & Hove you may explore some of the following for life balance:

Your support systems and networks

If, and how, you ask for help when you need it

Your ability to set clear boundaries with other people

Your career, relationship, and life goals or aspirations

What, deep down, matters to you

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If you'd like any further information on Pathways Psychotherapy and Counselling in Brighton & Hove or if you'd like
to arrange a telephone consultation or book an appointment please get in touch by using this form 
or call me directly on 07590 506567

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