Your body and mind are inextricably connected. At IMI, we’ve worked with thousands of individuals for over three decades: what our clinical experience proves time and time again is that there are seven key factors that impact your overall wellbeing.
Mental health: how to help yourself and others during the pandemic
Core Process Psychotherapist Carole Bradshaw shares why the pandemic has triggered an epidemic of fear; the consequences of unmanaged fear, and solutions to support you and loved ones through uncertain times.
Covid-19 and You: 20 Ways to Support Your Health
New children’s book by renowned naturopath provides health tips while paying tribute to Hong Kong.
How to silence your inner critic
“I should’ve done this!”, “What’s wrong with me?”, “I’m a fraud – I don’t deserve to do well,” “It’s my fault – I deserve this!”.There it goes again. Your judgmental and disapproving inner critic prodding at you, putting you down, and sometimes paralyzing you, telling you time and time again...
What’s behind your anxiety? Discover sources and solutions with naturopathy and psychotherapy
Your health and happiness are dependent on seven factors: mind, body, emotions, spirit, energy, community and environment. Seemingly unrelated, these interconnected factors all play a significant role in how you feel and how you are every single day. Take Jane, a thirty-year old first-time mum who was unwell and unhappy....
Postnatal depression: it can strike at any time, but sharing experiences allows women to help each other – an article featured in South China Morning Post
Melissa Shadforth, IMI’s Integrative Counsellor talks about the challenge of post-birth depression and stress which can hit at any time, even years after giving birth.
Stress: is it controlling you?
People in Hong Kong are “stressed out!” This is something we hear often. Any why is that? Increasingly, people are viewing their job as a major source of their stress – and in response many corporate organisations are beginning to offer programs to help workplace stress. But there are other...
Depression and anxiety: you don’t need to suffer in silence or alone
Have you or your loved one experienced difficulties with depression and anxiety? Are you aware of some of the signs: unable to remember things or concentrate; find it difficult to sleep or sleeping too much; feeling tired all the time; no energy or emotion about anything; avoiding activities you usually...
A Happy New Year: understanding depression and the natural solutions
Depression hurts. It’s the ‘black dog’ of the night that robs you of joy, the unquiet mind that keeps you awake. It’s a noonday demon that only you can see, the darkness visible only to you. —Jon Kabat Zinn Over the past two weeks most of us have been given...