Tiffany Armitage

28/11/2025

🧠 Fun brain fact for your day…
Recent research is showing even more clearly that your brain doesn’t fully settle down until your early 30s. New research shows the “adolescent” brain stage actually runs from about age 9 right through to 30-ish.

This doesn’t mean teenagers are tiny adults – it just means your brain is still fine-tuning things like emotions, decision-making and stress well into your twenties.

From a therapy point of view, this is actually really hopeful.

If life feels messy, intense or confusing in your teens or twenties – you’re not failing, you’re developing. Things really do get easier to manage as you get older.

And it’s a good reminder of why leaning on older, steadier people helps so much. Parents, grandparents, mentors, friends – borrowing someone else’s calm while your brain is still under construction is not weakness, it’s smart. 💛

You’re not supposed to do life alone.

Study suggests brain development has four pivotal ‘turning points’ at around the ages of nine, 32, 66 and 83

10/11/2025

🌿 A little update! 🌿

I’m so happy to share that my in-person sessions have finally moved to my new therapy space — a beautiful old Georgian house that we're gradually bringing back to life.

The therapy room itself is all ready and feels calm, light and welcoming, though the rest of the house is still very much mid-renovation (so please excuse any slightly less polished corners!).

It already feels like the perfect space to settle, reflect and breathe — I can’t wait to welcome you in. 💚

07/11/2025

📢 We have just launched an urgent fundraiser to secure the future of Breathworks.

Right now, Breathworks is facing a particularly challenging time. Demand for our support has never been higher - more people are living with chronic pain and long-term illness, yet fewer can afford to access help.

We need to raise £50,000 by 31st December to safeguard our charity and continue reaching those who need us most.

Every donation counts - if everyone in our community gave just £5, we’d reach our target.

Can you be one of our early supporters?

Donations made in the first 48 hours give our campaign crucial momentum - helping our campaign reach more people and inspiring others to give.

Thank you for your support - every donation brings us closer to a future where no one faces pain and illness alone.

💙 Click here to donate: https://gofund.me/e2e83b163
🔗 Or browse our website: www.breathworks-mindfulness.co.uk

13/10/2025

Wednesday, October 22 · 1 - 2pm

12/10/2025

You can't heal in the same environment that made you sick...

You can't heal in the same environment that made you sick...

Barriers to mental health...
To live mentally healthy lives, our physical and emotional needs must be healthily met. Human givens practitioners look to see what might be preventing this in their clients’ lives and to help them address it. Maybe their home or work situation is emotionally toxic or their environment is physically unsafe, leaving them insecure. Or maybe their psychological resources, designed to help meet needs, are not functioning properly, because of past trauma or poor diet or unhelpful conditioning. Or maybe they never learned the social skills to enable them to meet their needs. All these need resolving during the therapy.

Find the right therapist for you - https://www.hgi.org.uk/find-therapist/

Heal, reclaim balance and flourish with human givens therapy.

06/10/2025

PTSD Resolution helps UK armed forces veterans, reservists & families struggling to reintegrate into normal work & family life because of combat related stress, transitional distress and trauma.

30/09/2025

🧠✨ Just listening to a BBC radio / magazine-style discussion ("All in the mind" 30th sept) about the fascinating6 future of AI in therapy — how machine learning, chatbots, and virtual counselors might reshape mental health care. Worth a listen if you're curious about where we’re heading! 🎧

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Listen live to BBC Radio 4 on BBC Sounds

25/08/2025

Research showing the serious physical impact of anxiety on our health. 💔

Risk of cardiovascular disease was 41% higher in women who experienced stalking and 70% higher in women with experience obtaining a restraining order, compared to women without these experiences, according to a new Harvard Chan School study.

15/08/2025

Starting today!!😆 Coffee and Connect Plymstock ☕️ 11:15-12:45 in Plymstock Library

We are very excited to have a new Coffee and Connect location and hope to see as many of you as possible!

10/08/2025

Big smiles from Lisa and I today as we teach Module 5 – all about helping clients beat their fears and phobias 🐕✈️🎤

It’s such a rewarding topic to teach, and our students are already getting stuck into the techniques that can make such a huge difference in people’s lives.

31/07/2025

📘 🧠💤
HG College have just released a free online course exploring the science behind dreams. It offers a fascinating look at what modern research tells us about why we dream, the role of REM sleep, and how our unconscious mind processes experience.

An excellent resource for anyone working in mental health, coaching, or personal development — or simply curious about the inner workings of the dreaming brain.

🧠💤 Highly recommended!
https://www.humangivens.com/college/why-do-we-dream-free-online-course/

30/07/2025

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The power of 7:11 breathing...

On our Human Givens College training courses, we teach a technique known as 7:11 breathing, because it’s the most powerful technique we know.

Here is how you do it, and it is as easy as it sounds:
Breathe in for a count of 7.
Then breathe out for a count of 11.

If you can, breathe in and out through your nose, not your mouth.

Make sure that your diaphragm (tummy) swells out when you breathe in and collapses again when you breathe out. If your chest and shoulders are going up and down, that is shallow breathing, which you want to avoid when panicky.

If you find it easier, breathe in to a count of 3 and out to 5, or whatever suits you best – as long as the out-breath is longer than the in-breath.

Continue in this way for 5-10 minutes – or longer if you have time – and enjoy the calming effect it will have on your mind and body. An added bonus of 7:11 breathing is that the very act of counting is a distraction, helping take your mind off worrying concerns.

The 7:11 breathing technique has been used for thousands of years throughout the world.

https://www.hgi.org.uk/resources/delve-our-extensive-library/resources-and-techniques/7-11-breathing-how-does-deep