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Unhelpful Coping Strategies Explained

What are Unhelpful Coping Strategies? We are all born with three innate survival strategies – fight, flight, and freeze. These strategies probably developed to protect us from physical danger, but we also use them to deal with psychological threat, including abuse or neglect. As children, we develop ways of coping with difficult feelings that are […]

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what is schema therapy?

What is Schema Therapy?

Developed by Jeff Young in the 90s, Schema Therapy is an integrative approach incorporating powerful elements from several therapeutic frameworks, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Psychoanalytic Therapy, and Gestalt Therapy. In simple terms, Schema Therapy examines core themes within a person’s life to help them break negative, rigid and unhelpful patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.

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The Self-Soothing Series - Journaling and Affirmations

The Self-Soothing Series – Journaling and Affirmations

I’m back with another instalment of the self-soothing series in which I share tools and strategies to support you when you become emotionally dysregulated. Today I want to talk about the power of journaling and affirmations. Journaling for Mental Health Journaling is a helpful tool to manage your mental health. It involves writing down your

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The Self-Soothing Series - Using Your Imagination

The Self-Soothing Series – Using Your Imagination

I’m back with another instalment of the self-soothing series in which I share tools and strategies to support you when you become emotionally dysregulated. Today, we’re focussing on the power of imagination. As well as self-soothing, this exercise can help you connect with your inner wisdom, kindness and compassion. Some of us already have these

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how to use imagery to soothe and calm yourself

The Self-Soothing Series – Visualisation

I’m back with another instalment of the self-soothing series in which I share tools and strategies to support you when you become emotionally dysregulated. Many of us, including mothers, can become emotionally dysregulated in everyday life. Those who have experienced a lot of stress and trauma are likely to become more dysregulated more quickly, so

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