Nothing in nature blooms all year. Be patient with yourself.
I love the wisdom within nature and how it can teach us about our own internal cycles. Daffodils can symbolise rebirth and new beginnings, the transition from winter to spring.
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Starting and returning to college reminders
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
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Emotions need motion.
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
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You cannot out think your feelings. You feel your feelings, not think them.
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...
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Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.
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
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After a therapy session
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
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Sometimes, it does not matter why you feel the way you feel. What matters is how you respond to it.
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
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Without awareness, our brain cannot tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined.
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.
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The thought and fear of suffering is often worse than the suffering itself.
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
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Understanding emotions
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
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New brain vs old brain
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
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