What it's like working with     Rude Health Rocks

On this page, you'll find the results that our clients are getting, insight into our beliefs and philosophies, our approach and what makes us different to most stress management consultants out there.

When you start working with us you can expect your stress levels to drop, freeing you up to be more effective and productive.

You’ll have more energy to deal with life. We'll work with you to reduce or even eliminate most of those things that just seemed to drain energy from you. We'll help you find ways to maintain your focus on what is most important to you and ignore the increasing number of distractions that can drag you down.

Feelings of overwhelm will be reduced. You will be able to think more clearly and make better decisions. We'll work with you to develop unique habits for your situation that keep you resourceful. You’ll learn how to cut through the chaos and use your energy on core activities. You'll develop useful strategies for making decisions about what you need to do, what others need to do and what can be ignored.

You'll develop robust habits for maintaining physical and emotional good health. The core of successful long-lasting change is to turn things into good habits, habits that are almost automatic so you do not need to think about them. This frees you up to focus on just the things that need your conscious attention.

You’ll be able to reduce or eliminate destructive habits like excess drinking, smoking and overeating. When you’ve developed enough stress-eliminating habits you’ll feel better and have more energy. The old, destructive habits you’d slipped into will just fall away as they no longer serve any useful purpose for you.

You’ll develop reliable ways of putting social and family activities back into your life so you feel better about yourself and more confident about the life you’re creating. Instead of seeing a tired, stressed person in the mirror, you’ll start to see the fun-loving, easy-going relaxed person that enjoys life again.

Beliefs and philosophies that guide our practice

We believe there’s always something you can do to improve a situation, even a seemingly hopeless one.

We think prevention is better than cure. It makes far more sense to take preventative measures to avoid serious problems, than to wait until serious, life-changing health problems happen before you take measures to improve things.

We think in terms of ‘constant improvement’ rather than radical change. Our experience has taught us that good changes happen one mindful step at a time. Radical change can cause additional stress and often throws out lots of things that are already working well. We believe in building on what’s already working by making steady incremental improvements. This approach has been shown to give the highest chance for long lasting success, because the new behaviours build on existing strong foundations.

We're committed to working with our clients to produce lasting solutions that will serve them long after they have finished working with us.

We believe work can and should be a fulfilling experience. While profitability is all-important, sacrificing satisfaction and good health is not optional. We believe it’s essential that people have an enjoyable lifestyle that respects their health now and into the future.

Our approach & what it's like working with us

We listen carefully to you so we can find out what's important, what your priorities are, what challenges you’re facing and how you want things to be different.

Our aim is to help you develop good habits around the most important things in your life, so that the important things happen automatically. When good supporting habits are in place you hardly need to think about them. You can rely on those things being there, so you can get on with enjoying life.

We keep sessions light and enjoyable, even though the issues can be serious. We are as committed to enjoying the process as we are to getting results. In fact, we believe that you get better results when you do have fun. This doesn't mean that we waste precious time – yours or ours – clowning around and avoiding issues. When it comes to managing stress and forming new habits, having a light attitude is not only desirable, it keeps you going and rubs off on others.

We get to the core issues as quickly as possible. As we identify clear blocks or misunderstandings in our clients, we will address them promptly. If we believe clients are selling themselves short, or ignoring issues, we will challenge them on this.

We'll tell you if issues arise that are outside our area of expertise. We will recommend you seek help from someone trained in the relevant field. We don't believe in wasting your valuable time – or ours – on strategies that won't improve your situation.

What makes us unique?

We deliver our service by phone, in short, focused sessions. This means that it’s practical, for busy people to fit into their schedule.

We approach stress management with years of experience helping people overcome ill-health that was induced by stress. Our focus now is to help people deal with the causes of stress before long-term health problems occur.

We have a large ‘toolkit’ of resources and experiences to draw upon from the fields of complementary medicine, holistic health care, neuro-linguistic-programming, management, coaching and integral leadership.

Why our approach is so powerful

We specialise in asking good questions, rather than giving easy answers. This gives you the chance to think differently about your situation, and come up with your own solutions.

Think of this example. If you walk into the self-help section of a bookshop, there's probably at least half a shelf of different books on each topic, with more in the pipeline to be published. Logically, we would say that those books don't work, because, if they did work, there wouldn’t be a need for them all. A vital point that’s overlooked is that the key to each author’s ‘self-help’ success was that they found their solution for themselves.

Few of us truly accept being told what to do. We’d rather solve things for ourselves, because that way we gain strength and learn skills we can apply independently in the future.

Now you've seen how we work, what makes us unique and what we can offer, take a look at Our Service.