Are you getting enough sleep? If not

Besides, would constant certainty be such a great thing? Wouldn’t life become stale and boring? Wouldn’t we end up yearning for the unexpected? Our life, just like everyone else’s, will include highs and lows. No matter how much we worry, we can’t know what’s in store for us. And we can’t prevent problems happening just by worrying about them.

Most of us are wary of uncertainty. We want stability. We want predictability. We want to be assured that the way our world looks when we get up in the morning is the way it will look when we go to bed. And if change occurs, we prefer it to be on our terms. Life, however, tends to have other ideas! Things don’t always go to plan. The unexpected

Accepting uncertainty

Problem-solving is all about taking a logical approach to dealing with issues. And because it’s logical, there’s no mystery: we can learn how to do it. Follow the steps we set out below (make sure you write down your answers): 1. Define the problem as specifically as you can. 2. Think of as many solutions to the problem as you possibly can. Try to

Instead of spending all our worry period dwelling on the negative, we need to open up to the constructive things we can do to make our lives better. In particular, let’s start to see our suspicious thoughts – and the worries they trigger – as problems we can solve. When you feel ready, aim to replace these worry periods with problem-solving

When we worry, we give ourselves a skewed perspective

Replacing worry periods with problem-solving

It took a bit of time to get the hang of it, but after a few days I got pretty good at postponing my worrying. I said to myself, ‘Not now. I’ll deal with you later.’ At the beginning I’d write down the worry in my notebook so I didn’t forget it. I don’t do that now. When I got back from work, I’d sit on a kitchen chair, and set my alarm clock for