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CREATING SAFETY TO PROCESS TRAUMA – PART 2

Creating safety is a really essential part of processing trauma. In addition to the exercises highlighted previously, below are some additional lifestyle activities that can prepare you further. Use guided imagery recordings, to help you visualize peaceful and safe...

CREATING SAFETY TO PROCESS TRAUMA – PART 1

Processing trauma can be daunting, whether you’re addressing it for the first time or revisiting past experiences that have been hidden away. To do this, it’s essential to establish a sense of safety by strengthening our parasympathetic (calming) nervous...

SHALL I PROVIDE THAT NARCO SUPPLY?

Er? What’s all that about…sounds very fishy and illegal, and certainly not to be discussed here! It’s all related to narcissists…but not the obvious, grandstanding ones – they can be spotted a mile away. It’s the more insidious “covert” ones that are way more...

The MC…

Begone, begone ye Midlife Crisis. Thanks again to the Bard for inspiration. Well, is it a fact, fiction or fantasy? It was first identified in 1965 by the psychologist Elliott Jacues who defined it as “a phase in a middle-aged person’s life (usually between the...