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Month: July 2022

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What is your body trying to tell you?

What is your body trying to tell you?

A couple of weeks ago (before I got distracted by Birth Trauma Awareness week) I’d started a little series looking at the three ‘compass points’ that we work from when we’re exploring and then processing trauma.  As a quick recap, we’re talking about thoughts (this is more about the meaning or beliefs we have about ourselves, other people or the world around us as a result of certain events or experiences), physical sensations and feelings (or emotions).  This week I’m looking at the body and all the incredible insights we can glean from the messages it sends us.

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Birth trauma awareness

Birth trauma awareness

As I write this, it’s the end of 2022’s ‘Birth Trauma Awareness Week’ and I’ve been super interested (and excited) to see this topic getting much more attention than in previous years.  So, I thought I’d reprise a blog I’ve updated and refreshed about this incredibly important topic.  Of course, I happen to think all trauma is important to talk about, but birth trauma especially so because I think it’s been ignored and misunderstood for too long – considered “just what happens when you give birth” – and honestly, it’s something we can do so much to both prevent and treat.

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Feelings are for feeling

Feelings are for feeling

In my line of work, I spend lots of time navigating three different but equally important ‘compass points’ of a person’s inner world; thoughts (and as a psychotherapist working with the kind of modalities that I practice this is more about the meaning or beliefs we have around certain events or experiences), physical sensations and feelings (or emotions).  Different people struggle to articulate or connect to different parts of these compass points, for a whole host of different reasons, but it’s kind of like the start point of any of the process-work that we do.  Before we can move through (heal if that’s your language) from our various traumas we need to have an awareness of how it’s affected us.  And to do that we need to have to i) have the words for the thoughts, sensations and feelings and ii) connect to them or as I would say, really know them and how they show up for us as individuals.  So, I thought I’d spend the next few weeks shifting through these three areas:

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My favourite resources: April – June 2022

My favourite resources: April – June 2022

This one is a week or so late!  I try to publish this review at the end / start of each new quarter but because I was busy travelling to the UK and catching COVID it kind of slipped my mind…anyway, here’s my latest brain-dump of all the things that I’ve been consuming lately.

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The power of rest

The power of rest

I have just returned to the Practice after 2 weeks leave visiting family in the UK and attending a trauma conference in Belfast…oh and catching COVID (of course) to keep things interesting!  It didn’t quite go as planned, thanks to the COVID bit, but it was amazing to go on a plane again (something I used to take for granted) and even more splendid to go back to England and see people and places that are so special to me.  I took a really hard-line with myself and the degree of contact I was intending to have with the Practice and everything that might need tending to while I was away.  I had communicated my leave with my clients (obviously) and spent time with them to make sure we had a plan for while I was away.

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