Tag: recovery
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Three ways to help yourself move through the hard stuff.
Feeling Stressed? Find Your Harmony! Life’s curveballs can steal your joy, but there’s a simple solution: move your body, crank up the music, and get creative! From dancing in the kitchen to baking a cake, these activities can boost your mood and unleash your inner artist. So ditch the blues and embrace the movement, music,…
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Three lessons in life from flying a glider and loosing control
As part of my ongoing effort to recover my mental health and focus on the positive lessons life gave me, I was journaling the other day and reflecting how I felt I was in a tail spin hurtling downwards. My emotions absolutely out of control. As I wrote I remembered the occasions i was actually…
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Trauma Therapy Session 21: Pause of EMDR. A great opportunity to address the bigger picture.
We took a break from EMDR. I had an appointment straight after the session which I didn’t really want to walk into in a mess. EMDR has been amazing but I am set on trying to tackle “the box” next time and I feel a little uncertain if it will go as well. Chris agreed…
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Starting a hard conversation. Advice is often easier to give than take.
Well that was the start of a conversation I have managed to avoid for around a decade. It was so hard, but I am glad I managed to start it. Preparing to begin… I have been speaking with my therapist Chris about how to talk to my eldest daughter about my childhood. She has frequently…
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Recovery after therapy. Five ways to help you feel better.
Sometimes therapy is hard. The process of digging up old memories and sorting through them. The action of exposing emotions and learning to sit with them. Often the more productive a session the harder it feels. It can literally feel like you have run a marathon. Creating not just a mental but a physical exhaustion.…
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Finding happiness or mental well-being is messy and worth it.
Something I have been pondering of late is what the path to improve our mental health looks like. Occasionally in our therapy sessions Chris will ask to complete a questionnaire to gauge where any levels of anxiety or depression are at. I can see the value in these processes as they allow you to set…
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Tools & Techniques – Thought Field Therapy
The first in a planned series of blogs specifically on tools and techniques I have used to improve my wellbeing.
Rowan Aderyn 