What Are Grounding Exercises? Grounding exercises can help us when we are feeling overwhelmed by unwanted thoughts, memories (including flashbacks) and feelings associated with anxiety and trauma. You can also use them if you are triggered by stress. Grounding exercises can help to re-center and calm the body and mind. They can help us to… Read More A Grounding Exercise You Might Find Useful.
Those of us who have become obsessed with trying to control everything around us may not realize we are doing it. So our first step as always is to recognise we are doing using this type of behaviour. We can liken this type of behaviour as trying to use our body to hold back floodwaters.… Read More 4 Key Tips To Letting Go Of Controlling Behaviour.
New Workbook available in my shop and on Amazon. We often find ourselves looking to change things up in our life but we also have a habit of jumping from awareness into action. We miss something vital when we make these quick jumps, we miss acceptance. Acceptance is a very active step to take in… Read More Building Acceptance Into Your Life. Workbook
What Is Under Parenting? Under parenting can be described as inadequately parenting of a child. Being under parented can be a complex and subjective experience for those who have experienced it. Everyone affected will be left emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually scared by their personal experience. But how and why does under parenting happen? What Are… Read More Self Help Tips For Those Of Us Who Were Under Parented.
What Is A Core Belief? A belief is an idea that you hold as being true and may be based upon certainties, probabilities or matters of faith. Beliefs can come from a variety of sources such as: Your own experiences or experiments (e.g. childhood, school, family, friends, neighbourhood, etc.) Your cultural and societal norms you… Read More Why It Is Important To Recognize Your Core Beliefs.
If you were raised by uninvolved parents the journey to healing can be hard. Often times you may not have realized you were neglected at the time. You could have internalized the pain and loneliness you felt while growing up. Plus having your concerns dismissed as being too sensitive or selfish is so undermining. Sibling… Read More Understanding Uninvolved Parenting And Its Consequences.
Giving someone the gift of reading will empower them for life. A lot of time we take our ability to read for granted. Not everyone in the world has had the same access to books and education as we have. Sometimes we forget this. We also forget that access to information needs to come in… Read More 4 Self-Help Books I Read That I Thought Were Helpful.
What is perfectionism? Perfectionism may be defined as the need to appear to be, or a need to be, perfect. The person may think they can achieve perfection if only they do … Fill in the blank yourself. Whatever it is it is probably unrealistic. But they don’t realise that nothing, or no one, can… Read More Letting Go Of Perfectionism
Why We Need A Support System? We all know that life can have its ups and downs. During those downs we really need positive people who will understand, listen and support us more than ever. Giving and receiving that support is one of the basic needs we have as humans. There are many benefits to… Read More Self-Care: Building A Support System
It is estimated that about 3.5% of the population will experience a psychotic episode in their lifetime. But only a small percentage of these will go on to experience a psychotic disorder that requires treatment. What Is Psychosis? Psychosis is an umbrella term that describes a group of loosely related abnormalities around thinking, perceiving, behaving… Read More Substance Abuse Induced Psychosis
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