Christiana Star
Licensed Psychologist and Writer. BA Hons Psychology, BA Hons Education
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Christiana Star (BA Hons Psychology, BA Hons Education) is a registered psychologist and author with extensive experience in private practice, as a corporate consultant, critical incident counsellor, trauma consultant , speaker and workshop facilitator.
Combining professional expertise with a spiritual outlook on life, Christiana specialises in creating self-help materials for personal growth, empowerment and mental health. Presenting complex psychological issues in an easily accessible way, her work offers new perspectives, insights, practical tips and easy strategies that can be applied straightaway.
Christiana has helped many people through her online articles, blog and a complementary ebook. Her latest book Recover, Rebuild, Thrive. A practical guide for moving on from difficult life changes offers comprehensive guidance for readers seeking to achieve personal transformation and success on their own terms.
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7 Keys to living with Intention, Meaning and Purpose
Are you living life or is life living you? Do exte al events or people push you into a negative state difficult to escape from? Or is it you who determines your experience of life? What happens in life cannot be controlled. Many things in life are imposed on you whether you like it or not. However, just as a competent surfer does not control the wave but masters the art of riding it, you too can determine how you deal with challenges. How to direct your own course and travel life’s currents in ways that are meaningful to you? Use your free will.
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The Must Have Habit For Living An Intentional Life - Your Own Life Audit.
Businesses perform audits of goods and services, management structures, staff performance and anything else relevant to the particular company. Often this results in internal adjustments and restructures. On a personal level we can also benefit from stopping and reflecting on how we are travelling. Following great upheavals we might be forced by circumstance to take stock and assess how to deal with it, what needs to be done, what resources and options are available. But there is much to be gained by doing it as a regular practice.
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Meet Drama With Detachment - The #1 Skill For Coping In Today’s World.
Detachment is not about being aloof or withdrawing from the world. We can be passionate, involved, enthusiastic and engaged with life in all its forms. Living in seclusion may help some people to go deep within, but for others that sort of separation from the world is not desired or possible. The detachment contemplated in this article is an internal process to be undertaken while remaining immersed in life matters.
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Self-Pity Is Toxic. Choose Self-Compassion Instead
Unwanted changes, unexpected challenges, loss, disappointments, abuse or other forms of adversity often bring with them hurt or harm. Feelings of self-pity are quite normal and understandable. Life has changed in some way and often not for the better. It is only natural to feel sorry for yourself when you are having a hard time. There is nothing wrong with acknowledging that you are suffering and unsure how to cope. But if self-pity takes over and you don’t reign it in, it is a very problematic emotion. The Problem with Self-Pity.r
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Upgrade Your Psychological Toolkit To Make Sure You Are Prepared For Life’s Challenges
Each person has their own ‘toolkit’ of psychological qualities. They guide how life is lived, the choices made, inclinations and preferences, connections with other people and performance at work. Among them are characteristics like calmness, independence, diligence, friendliness, creativity, courage and so on.
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Why Memories Remain Painful Even After Long Time And How To Loosen The Hold Of The Past
Why Memories hurt. When an experience is recorded as a memory, it goes through the emotional and cognitive filters, assumptions and interpretations of the person. This is one of the reasons why different people can have quite different recollections of an event they all witnessed.
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Counter Stress with Serenity! Find out how you can fit it into your busy life
Everybody knows about stress. Too much to do, too little time, problems, issues, irritations and whatever else makes life complicated and frantic. But serenity? Isn’t that a very old-fashioned idea with no relevance in the modern world? Quite the contrary, it is essential for well-being and counteracting the damaging effects of stress on body, mind and soul. But how to practise it in a fast-paced life?
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Invest In Yourself: 5 Tips For Self-care That Helps You Be Your Best.
In a busy life, self-care is often pushed aside or given low priority. Perhaps a weekly yoga class or run around the block on weekends are all you can fit in. But for optimal functioning you need to invest in your mind and emotions as well as your physical health.
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Intuition - How to access, develop and use it in your own life
Intuition - the ‘sixth sense’ - has had a rather chequered history. At various times it was considered a gift bestowed on only a few, a curse leading to persecution or a form of woo-woo imagination children were taught to suppress. Although some individuals seem naturally wired for strong intuitive abilities - as others are for athletic or musical talents - that kind of intelligence can be enhanced by most sensitive people. What form does intuition take?r
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Why Memories Remain Painful Even After Long Time And How To Loosen The Hold Of The Past
Why Memories hurt. When an experience is recorded as a memory, it goes through the emotional and cognitive filters, assumptions and interpretations of the person. This is one of the reasons why different people can have quite different recollections of an event they all witnessed.
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Overwhelmed by Difficult Emotions? How to Take Charge and Calm Emotional Storms.
Feelings come in waves, often appearing out of the blue, triggered by a memory, words overheard, pictures or experiences. The more we are trying to reign them in, suppress or ignore them, the stronger and more persistent they get - if not in the moment then sometime later, even after many years. The Gang of 3: Emotions, Mind and Body.r
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Empowerment! The 11 Qualities You Need To Be In The Driver’s Seat Of Your Life.
Empowerment! The 11 Qualities You Need To Be In The Driver’s Seat Of Your Life. You are the authority in your life although it might not always seem that way. When exte al circumstances or events impose conditions that are not of your choosing you might feel powerless and loose hope of ever being fully yourself. Other people move on from adversity and thrive with new qualities and strengths. They understand that even though many things may be beyond their control, nobody and nothing can take away their power to determine their inner life and response to life’s challenges.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Christiana Star
- The way to inner peace, strength and a rewarding life is not always easy, but with help it can be done.
- Every person's path to health and wholeness is different depending on the specifics of their experiences, their nature, intensity and duration, the degree of personal resilience and the support they can access.
- Picking up the pieces a major change, starting from scratch, personal re-invention and building a new life is like a puzzle of many different fragments coming together: troubling symptoms need to be addressed, an authentic sense of self restored, intense emotions managed, dysfunctional thinking overcome, relationships negotiated and new life skills activated.
- While adversity usually includes some form of loss, it also contains the seeds for positive transformation. It may lead to greater strength, empowerment, emotional freedom and self-determination.
- Real self-love is a spiritually -based attitude towards yourself. You have respect for your life, time and energy. You nurture yourself with self-care. You do not allow others to take advantage of you or treat you badly. You accept yourself unconditionally with all your limitations. And when you have been less than perfect, you treat yourself with a self-compassionate mindset.
- Every person is the authority in their own life although it might not always seem that way. Whatever the circumstances or history, personal empowerment can be developed, strengthened and expressed in every aspect of life.
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Christiana has the ability to deconstruct and explain complex psychological issues in easy-to-understand terms. In her writing she provides the tools needed for attaining goals, retraining the mind, managing distressing emotions, increasing self-acceptance, calming the body and creating positive change. Full of new perspectives, insights, information and effective psychological strategies, Christiana's work is for everyone who wants to achieve personal transformation and success on their own terms.
Her latest book "Recover, Rebuild, Thrive. A practical guide to moving on from difficult life changes" provides comprehensive guidance for healing and empowerment after adversity and setbacks.