Emotions – Trust Therapy

Starting and returning to college reminders

in Anxiety and Stress, Emotions, Links and Resources, Young Adult 15th September 2021 0 0

From my personal experience of starting college, it was a difficult transition where I was very close to dropping out. College can be a fun and exciting time but it is not always rainbows and butterflies; it can often be a difficult time for...

Emotions need motion.

in Anxiety and Stress, Emotions, Quotes 29th June 2021 0 0

When you allow yourself to experience your emotions; they will move through you, and not rule you. We may have learned to repress and disconnect from our emotions from a young age (e.g. “Big boys don’t cry”) and then, may find it...

You cannot out think your feelings. You feel your feelings, not think them.

in Emotions, Links and Resources, Quotes, Thoughts 24th May 2021 0 0

Often, we believe that if we THINK “I’m confident”, “I’m good enough”, “I got this” – then we will FEEL this way. However, thinking and feeling are two different entities...

Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.

in Covid-19, Emotions, Links and Resources, Loss, Quotes, Self Care 11th March 2021 0 0

Anniversaries of any kind (e.g. a bereavement, a break up, an accident) can bring up a mix of emotions. A year anniversary of a global pandemic is no different. Our lives dramatically changed by an announcement this time last year where I feel...

After a therapy session

in About therapy, Emotions, Links and Resources 8th February 2021 0 0

Therapy is hard work. We might hear from some people how “great” and “lighter” they feel after a therapy session. It is important to note that therapy does not always immediately make you feel better. Sometimes, we may feel “worse” after a...

Sometimes, it does not matter why you feel the way you feel. What matters is how you respond to it.

in Compassion, Emotions, Links and Resources, Quotes, Thoughts 27th January 2021 0 0

As humans, we love logic. We love to know why certain things happen. With our emotions, we may feel that when we understand the root of difficult emotions, we can stop that feeling, “fix” it, or know how to prevent it from arising again in...

Without awareness, our brain cannot tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined.

in Emotions, Links and Resources, Mindfulness, Quotes 18th January 2021 0 0

Have you ever noticed this? Perhaps you are watching a suspenseful movie. Your heart begins to race, you are holding your breath as if you are in the movie itself. Perhaps you are in bed thinking of the day ahead tomorrow and all the things on...

The thought and fear of suffering is often worse than the suffering itself.

in Emotions, Links and Resources, Mindfulness, Quotes, Thoughts 11th January 2021 0 0

Can you relate? We do not like to suffer. Our brains are pre-programmed to keep us alive, to avoid danger, to survive. Our natural human instinct is to seek out nothing but happiness, while trying not to feel anything unpleasant. Underneath the...

Understanding emotions

in Compassion, Emotions, Links and Resources 24th August 2020 0 0

To understand what might soothe the fusion of the old and new brain (previous post), it can be useful to understand the emotional regulation systems from a Compassion Focused Therapy perspective. These can be divided into: Threat system (red) –...

New brain vs old brain

in Anxiety and Stress, Emotions, Links and Resources, Thoughts 12th August 2020 0 0

Sometimes, it is hard not to get caught up with rumination and over thinking, especially with the current global situation. It might help to understand why this happens to us and how our brains work. The oldest part of our brain does not “think”...

Window of Tolerance

in Emotions, Links and Resources, Self Care, Thoughts 25th May 2020 0 0

Window of Tolerance