After running after the children all day, I need to have 10 minutes to myself. Quiet time is hard to get, so I make sure I use it wisely. As a YPS Wellness Member, I can choose to listen to meditative music, or learn the latest skills in challenging my negative thoughts. There’s so much to learn about my mental health, and I’m well on the way now.

Without YPS Psychology I don’t think I would have committed to my studies at all. I felt I wanted to drop out of university. I found my first year most difficult. Moving to a different city away from my family and friends led to me having feelings of anxiety and stress, which affected my work ethic greatly. Procrastination at its finest! This was such a scary time as I had never experienced these feelings before attending University. YPS Wellness Membership has allowed me to access professional guidance on how to identify helpful and unhelpful thoughts. I now free up time to relax and reflect before entering the spiral of stress I was getting myself into before. I am confident to perfect those dreaded essays and graduate with that first!

When I lost my father, it took time to acknowledge that I would benefit from talking therapy. With having such a busy lifestyle, I found it so difficult to attend in person sessions and adjust to a new routine. Thanks to YPS I can access therapy-based resources anytime I need them, helping me manage the flood of emotions that accompanies a loss. YPS Psychology’s ‘Working and Grief’ course helped me to relieve those feelings of anxiety when returning to the workplace. My inner critic used to take over and I'd give myself a hard time for underperforming at work. I have learnt to accept and forgive that my work performance is likely to be weaker than before. With YPS, l always have access to a therapist, a psychologist in my pocket!

I’ve never been a great sleeper, and my biggest difficulty is falling asleep. The YPS Wellness journal has enabled me to relieve my stressful thoughts at bedtime. I’m recording my sleeping patterns and I can now pinpoint triggers and follow the expert advice from the YPS courses I've accessed. I have found that journaling and monitoring patterns alone, isn’t always enough to help me switch off as quickly as I would like to. Often, I tend to listen to the relaxing music tracks, or choose one of the sleep stories provided by YPS. Thank you YPS team. You’ve helped me transform my bedroom into the ‘Sleep Sanctuary’ I have always wanted. Instead of carrying my negative thoughts to bed, I toss them into the laundry basket along with my socks!

I had a scary experience when birthing mine and my husband’s first child which led to me feeling highly anxious, angry, and sad. I would find myself taking a lot of those feelings out on my husband and I became so jealous and paranoid. This really affected our relationship. The feelings of guilt that followed when having impulsive episodes just became unbearable. When I started to worry that my husband was going to leave me, I knew something had to change and I needed help and support. That’s when I found YPS Psychology. I signed up for the Bronze Wellness Membership initially and benefitted from it so much that I upgraded to the Gold Membership. I engaged with their courses. I found ‘Your Neurotic Personality and Couple Relationship’ course extremely helpful as I was able to relate to the certain behaviours covered. Thanks to YPS Psychology, I have been able to accept negative feelings and thoughts, and radiate warmth, not only towards my husband, but to myself and others in our social circle.

Growing up through school, I was always pulled out of class for misbehaving and was told I needed to ‘settle down and pay attention’, by all the teachers. Now at work I still struggle with my “misbehaviour”, getting easily distracted in meetings and being too hyperactive in the office. A friend recommended YPS Psychology’s online courses. I’m learning to harness my hyperactivity and channel it into my work projects, instead of being restless around the office. They’re also helping me to pay more attention in my boss’s tedious meetings, enabling me to better understand our company's strategies and implement them into my work. I can see a promotion coming my way soon!

I’ve been using YPS Psychology’s library of meditations and music to help me relax after work. I have a busy job and it takes me a while to sit down and put work aside until the next day. The ‘Anxious to calm’ course is guiding me to live a more balanced life, and it means I can fire on all cylinders at work after relaxing in the evening and weekends.