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A powerful CBT Technique - "The ABC Coping Sentence" by Dr. Claire Hayes
Would you like a simple tool to help you feel more in control and empowered on days when it feels like your mind is ruling your life?
Reflecting: Celebrating Achievements and Learning from Challenges
Reflecting on achievements and learnings can help stay on track with whatβs important to you
Mindfulness: Cultivating Presence in the New Year
Itβs still the dawn of a new yearβ¦. one month downβ¦ no better time to explore how mindfulness can infuse your year, and life, with an ongoing sense of presence and clarity.
Self-Care: Starting the Year with Healthful Intentions
Take time to set the tone for the months ahead with the power of self-care to transform your wellbeing
The Power of Self-Reflection, with a New Year here
I share some tips and ideas for effective self-reflection; drawn from my therapeutic philosophy, practices, and experience.
6 Qualities to Cultivate this Christmas Time
Your invitation to reflect, or consider, in the lead-up to the festive season is: How do I wish to be this Christmas? What qualities & attitudes am I aspiring for?
Mindful Approaches to Holidays: Nurturing Self-Care and Boundaries
Self-care and boundaries are game changers in moving through family celebrations, which can be fraught with complicated emotions.
Navigating Year-End Stress: Strategies for Corporate Workers
The pressure to meet year-end targets, finish projects, and manage personal and professional obligations can become overwhelming. Letβs chunk down 3 key tips for effectively managing end of year stress.
Navigating Grief During Holiday Times and Special Occasions
Grief can have a big impact on holiday times and special occasions, especially in the first year following your loss.
Disenfranchised Grief and Validating Unseen Loss
Disenfranchised grief is a term used to describe the unique pain that arises when society doesnβt acknowledge or validate a particular loss.
Nurturing Growth Amidst Grief: Understanding Lois Tonkin's Model
There is no one way to grieve. Tonkinβs model of grief helps us to understand how we can continue to grow around our grief.
Understanding the Evolving Stages of Grief and Healing
If youβre navigating grief, there are some evolving ideas around the stages of grief and how we heal, that you may find supportive.
Practical Steps from Two Models of Grief
Robert Neimeyer's meaning-making model of grief, and the Dual Process Model.
Navigating the Uncharted Waters of Grief
Exploring 4 Models: The Tasks of Morning, Growing around Grief, Making Meaning & The Stages of Grief
How to use Journalling as your Own Inner Coach
Journalling can be a supportive and therapeutic way to engage in personal development and self-therapyβ¦
Different ways to journal (with examples)
Different examples of journalling styles, including stream of consciousness and letter to self journalling.
20 Journal Prompts for Self Awareness
Some prompts to support you as you establish your own journalling practice.
Journalling as a tool for emotion regulation
I will sometimes offer journalling to clients who resonate with writing, as a complementary activity alongside therapy. By writing down our thoughts and emotional experiences, we can βexternaliseβ them (get them out of our heads and out into the world).
Learn emotion regulation skills for increased calm, clarity and wellbeing
Emotions come and go throughout the day, like traffic along a street. Sometimes though, an emotion sticks with us and may feel so intense we start to look for ways to manage or control it. This is where Emotion Regulation can help.
The Power of Self-Care: Building Resilience and Reconnecting with Yourself (incl downloadable personal template)
Discover the power of self-care and download my free 'My Self Care Reminders' template to create your personalised plan.