You made a decision about starting your healing after trauma and then what? Do you know how to begin and be able to monitor your progress? What is the best mindset? How can you help yourself when things go pear-shaped? Lots of unknowns! Therefore, here’s a rough guide on the recovery process. 1/ Establishing safety. …
The sheer term boundaries can cause an allergic reaction in some of my clients. There are almost always more crucial, more urgent, more pertinent issues to deal with. Nonetheless, if you do not have boundaries or/and do not respect the boundaries of other people then therapeutic recovery will be rather superficial. It is not something …
Self-care mugs, self-care gifts for every occasion, self-care T-shirts, self-care chocolate. Self-care has become a buzz word and unfortunately it is a huge loads of b*******. Here’s to clarify what looking after yourself actually means and to those who are trying to save money – yes, all these things are for free. The caveat is …
Safety as the pillar of working with trauma In my clinical therapeutic work, I often use the ‘Polyvagal Theory’ to allow people to understand what has happened to them during trauma and make sense of it in their own individual way. Constant survive mode is not a way to live your life, therefore maybe it …