Category: wellbeing
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Trauma Therapy Session 6: Post Session day 2. Pragmatic and productive.
We appear to be falling into a bit of a rhythm with these sessions. We have one tricky session then one easier we. We get into conversations about the past in one, then we reflect, process and plan in the next. I must admit I like the fact I get a rest in-between and I…
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Trauma Therapy Session 5: Post Session Day 6: I Didn’t Fail, I Survived.
One of the interesting discoveries I have made through this exploration of trauma therapy is the overarching story I have been telling myself years. I never voiced this opinion, I rarely thought about it, but in every conversation it is there. That subtle narrative the occasional words… my fault, I failed, I should have done……
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Trauma Therapy Session 5: post session day 6 . Facing into the “bad” feelings.
I have learnt over the last couple of months my emotional processing power has been subdued. It has never really reached a normal level of functioning, forced aside by the desire to avoid at all costs the trauma of the past. In this latest session we talked about an event and I thought it would…
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Trauma Therapy Session 5: post session day 2
Wow not really sure what to write. That was definitely a productive session. I am learning these sessions never really go exactly as I expect but that is ok, in fact maybe even good. We started the session reflecting on homework. The homework I was set was to continue to mirror back negative emotion when…
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Therapy: Peoples Reactions when I tell them I am in therapy.
I understand that as much as we try to create a world where mental health is accepted, normalised, within everyone’s comfort zone, today the subject is still a little tricky. I think it is so important to break down the stigma surrounding mental health so I am continually trying to share my experience with work…
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Four ways to protect your well-being when the world is Going to Sh!t
I appreciate that with lots of uncertainty and turmoil in the world again it is easy for anxiety to get out of hand. Here are some tips to maintain the calm in the storm. Avoid the News This is a hard one but so important. There is so much information freely available these days we…
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Trauma Session 4. Day 5 Debrief.
In the spirit of continuing to share for anyone else out there either navigating therapy or considering it, here is the low down on session Four of trauma work. We didn’t talk about the traumatic events in the last session, we mostly spent the time reflecting on the previous session and some broader considerations. It…
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Five ways to bring calm to emotions in the moment.
I hesitated writing this post, because I am currently in therapy to undo a lot of the below. Due to prior trauma in my life I had practiced the art of setting aside or numbing my emotions and I have reached the point now where I am a little numb to it all, which is…
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Trauma Therapy. Session 4: Day 1. A Single Thought
Have you ever watched how a tree moves in the wind. Bending and swaying, dancing too and fro. Every tiny branch moves. Each giving way to the force which compels it. I understand they move in this way because if they held fast, if the tree stood still it would snap and fall. I wonder…
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Trauma Therapy Session 3, Day 6. Hungry for Happiness.
This blog feels like a messy one to write, on this journey of therapy I am learning so much, but I am also exposing new fears. Lesson 100! I haven’t freely felt emotion for decades… I never knew before starting this journey that I have been constantly holding back. Resisting the drive to feel for…
Rowan Aderyn 