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Mindful advice from trauma-informed counsellors and therapists to help you transform your life
What is the Conversational Model of Therapy?
Understanding the Conversational Model of therapy The Conversational Model of Therapy (CMT) is a contemporary form of relational psychotherapy that evolved from psychoanalytic psychotherapy. It integrates aspects of neuroscience, developmental psychology, and...
Why grief has no end date: Dealing with the different stages of grief
The terms ‘grief’ and ‘bereavement’ are often associated with each other. We expect people to go through the grieving process after the loss of a loved one. However, did you know that we can also experience grief after other forms of loss? Grief is an emotional...
Complex Trauma: How your past can affect your future
What is Complex Trauma? Experiencing trauma at any age can take a toll on your mental health. But it is the repeated experience of trauma in early childhood and beyond that has been labelled, ‘complex trauma’. This trauma can be the result of a range of things such as...
Personal Boundaries – You Can Say No!
Learn how to set personal boundaries with these 5 proven methods Personal boundaries are crucial for healthy relationships and a healthy life. Personal boundaries are the physical, emotional and mental limits that you set to protect yourself from being manipulated by...
How To End Your Relationship With Your Therapist
All good things come to an end - even counselling Here’s how to deal with the conclusion of your therapeutic process The end of counselling is inevitable and may occur for a number of reasons. You’ve reached your goals, you or your therapist may be moving, you may...
Fear is a hard-wired emotion in the brain. Here’s why it takes time to recover from trauma…
If you’ve ever experienced trauma you may find yourself more ‘jumpy’ than others. You may experience fear in certain situations where there isn’t actually a direct threat to your safety, leaving yourself wondering why you feel scared when you’re not in any real...
Stress Can Affect Your Entire Being
Stress is not just in your head. In fact, stress is physiological, affecting your entire body, making everything you do seem so much harder. And stress can be caused by many factors: moving house, loss of a job, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or abuse suffered...
Memories from trauma can surface at any time… Here’s how to deal with it
Sadly, some of us experience such extreme trauma in our lives that we push our feelings deep, deep down inside, to cope with the unbearable pain. It’s too overwhelming to deal with the emotions all at once, so we force them away, dealing with them bit by bit as they...
Overwhelmed by the busy-ness of life? Here’s some tips for improving your mental health!
Good mental health is much more than just the absence of mental health problems. It refers to your overall psychological wellbeing, including the way you feel about yourself, the quality of your relationships, your ability to manage your feelings and how you deal with...
Got high stress and low energy levels? You’ve got to try this relaxing yoga practice…
Yoga is not ‘just yoga’. What many people don’t realise is that there are different forms of yoga. The concept of a good restorative sequence to mobilise your spine remains, but it’s the length of the poses that differs. Introducing restorative yoga Think of your big...
Trauma and addiction – the never ending merry-go-round. Is there a way to get off this ride?
For some of us, wounds run deep. Others can’t physically see our wounds and they don’t physically bleed, but deep down, they have cut us up and are very hurtful. Some people form addictions as a coping mechanism… There’s many things we can become addicted to: drugs,...
3 Yoga Poses To Help Reduce Anxiety
If you have ever experienced anxiety - you will know first hand how debilitating it can be and just how helpless it can make you feel. Physically, anxiety can be felt as nausea, dizziness, trembling, muscular tension, back ache or a tight feeling in the chest. The...
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