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1 week ago

Some days life is rubbish and it's everything you can do to get to the end of the day. Life can be hard work. Taking rest and prioritising sleep and good food is one of the basic needs of life. Take time to be kind to yourself.Being hard on yourself is exhausting. Sometimes we need to give ourselves the compassion we would give someone else instead of continually hurting ourselves through self harming self talk.www.lovejoycounselling.co.#anxietyx#lonelinessi#overthinkingn#relationshipproblemsb#depressionssion ... See MoreSee Less

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3 weeks ago

"Let sleeping dogs lie".....is an old idiom dating back to the 14th century it seems. We could use other phrases... Leave well enough aloneLet it be/Leave it aloneDon't stir up trouble Let goThe idea comes from, if we disturb a sleeping dog, it may bite or hurt us.Letting go of past hurts, mistakes, relationships, people, jobs...can be a very painful experience. But often letting go we must. We cannot recreate things that have finished, we cannot "undo" the past.If we struggle with moving on, grief, regret, injustice, abuse, trauma... talking it through in therapy will help let the past go, and give release and a new future. A future where we can thrive and leave depression, anxiety, anger, guilt or stress behind.www.lovejoycounselling.co.uk/#selfconfidence#relationships#therapy#guilt#mentalhealth ... See MoreSee Less

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4 weeks ago

Caregivers who are present teach children how to identify their emotions. Then caregivers help to regulate the child. As adults we can also learn to identify our emotions, especially if we were never taught this as children. When we have this skill we can master strategies for regulating our emotions, and by repeating these strategies we can grow our emotional muscles, decrease overwhelm, stress, depression, anxiety and experience resilience. We can manage our world better with increased confidence.www.lovejoycounselling.co.uk/#buxton#trauma #therapy #empowerment #neurodivergency ... See MoreSee Less

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1 month ago

Who am I? I am cute, have Parana teeth, have an inner rebel and a longing for love and connection. A puppy has many different aspects of his character. So do we.Therapy can help us become aware of all the aspects of our character. Maybe we have a "shadow side", a beautiful side, a creative us, a manipulator.... Whoever we are, sometimes it's best to know ourselves well...and how our *selves* interact with each other and the world around us.Stress, anxiety, depression, anger issues, relationships, addictions, family problems, neurodiversity, trauma, abuse, grief... There is a place for you in counselling with me. Please get in touch. 😊www.lovejoycounselling.co.uk/#psychotherapy#onlinetherapy#attachmentstyle#relationshipproblems#selfcare ... See MoreSee Less

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1 month ago

New beginnings.Life can be challenging. Starting something new, a new job, relationship, moving to a new place or stepping out in a new identity or something else can be fearful. But if we stay doing the same things and hope for different results....well that's an illogical conclusion. New spaces can be scary but courage can be transformative. Counselling can provide the the safe space to find boundaries, courage and capacity to discover, find a way forward and end the cycle that makes us stuck.www.lovejoycounselling.co.#transformativea#counsellingl#betterselfr#anxietyx#depressionssionidentity ... See MoreSee Less

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2 months ago

😡I've heard it said..."When you're angry you're a character in someone else's story"... What do you think? How do you feel about anger? Is it bad to feel it? Is it wrong to express it? Do you try and ignore anger....shove it down....or do you lash out and regret it...? Feeling angry is healthy. Swallowing our anger isn't healthy. How we express anger matters. Psychotherapy/counselling can really help us heal from our relationship wounds, learn how to emotionally regulate, and tackle our anger, stress, depression or anxiety with healthy strategies. Emotional intelligence and regulation is learned. www.lovejoycounselling.co.uk/#angerissues#angermanagement#psychotherapy#buxtonemotionalregulationstrategies ... See MoreSee Less

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2 months ago

"Use your words".A phrase that many speak to children, but what if as adults we, "used our words". Often in relationships we expect our partner to "know what they've done". We expect people to read our body language, read the room, or even mind read. Using our words takes away any misreading or doubt that partners may have. Talking WITH partners is healthy communication. Talking AT partners or assuming they should "get it" through other communication, perhaps increases stress, depression, anger, abandonment anxiety and resentment, which can become toxic to any relationship.When dis-regulation hits a discussion, take a break, but come back to talk.www.lovejoycounselling.co.uk/#relationshipcounselling#communication #buxton #therapist#conflict ... See MoreSee Less

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2 months ago

Grief is a journey we may feel we take alone because no one knows how we feel. Whether we grieve in chronic illness or chronic pain, a beloved person or pet or a home, job or period of our life...it's important to allow our feelings to come to the surface and do the "work" of grieving. By doing this we can move to a place of reconciliation with the loss we've experienced and a new identity.Counselling or talking therapy can really help us process emotions, and help us start to heal. Grieving "well" helps us manage future losses well. It negates us making mistakes or rebounding into depression, anxiety or future toxic or abusive relationships or bad choices that we perhaps wouldn't have chosen if we'd have given time for grieving.www.lovejoycounselling.co.uk/#highpeak #onlinetherapy #grief #counselling #sadness ... See MoreSee Less

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2 months ago

Emotions permeate everything we do and are. Having the skills to work with our emotions helps us achieve our goals, dreams, best relationships and keeps stress, depression, overwhelm and anxiety manageable.How to identify our emotions, regulate and work with them is a learned skill. Some of us perhaps learned these skills as children from our earliest caregivers.Some of us were perhaps through trauma, abuse or emotionally absent caregivers had to do the best we could with the tools we were given to manage our emotions. Psychotherapy or counselling can help us grow and learn emotional intelligence and hone our emotional skills. We can master strategies to self regulate and look after ourselves and others. By repeating these strategies we can grow our emotional muscles and experience resilience and growth in all areas of our life. www.lovejoycounselling.co.uk/#angerissues #selfcare #highpeak #neurodiversity #selfconfidence ... See MoreSee Less

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