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Grief is a journey we may feel we take alone because no one knows how we feel. ![]()
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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.![]()
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Counselling or talking therapy can really help us process emotions, and help us start to heal. ![]()
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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.![]()
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Emotions permeate everything we do and are.![]()
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Having the skills to work with our emotions helps us achieve our goals, dreams, best relationships and keeps stress, depression, overwhelm and anxiety manageable.![]()
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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.![]()
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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. ![]()
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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. ![]()
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"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." Churchill ![]()
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The path of transformation is learning to be with our pain, and not distracting or running from it, but allowing it to grow us, creating learning, resilience and strength. ![]()
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The gradual decline to burnout....![]()
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When we're in hypervigilance mode our executive functioning takes longer to kick in...Processing information takes longer....We may feel more emotional and less able to regulate.... Willpower takes longer to produce the same results.... Looking after colleagues, friends and family declines.... Survival mode increases... Rest days become recovery days... Burnout is on the way. ![]()
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Noticing these signs early can alert us to our mental health and put in boundaries that protect us before we "hit the wall" of burnout.![]()
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Stressful situations or a stressful workplace increase our cortisol levels, which in turn increases our fight or flight response. ![]()
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Recognising the impact of your stress level on your relationships.....to work, family, friends and yourself is an important part of the solution.![]()
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Attachment style is formed in the first two years of life. Those years we don't remember affect how we see ourselves, others and the world. ![]()
Stressed, overwhelmed, physically or mentally ill parents, parents with autism, ASD. Periods of separation from caregivers and postnatal depression can all affect us as babies, which then affects our later years. ![]()
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Sometimes just knowing what happened or that something happened and is showing in our lives now can help us understand ourselves better. It's not always about abuse or neglect. Life, in all it's complexity happens to babies too.![]()
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Change the algorythm....![]()
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Just as algorithms filter our feeds...we also "filter" the information we see everyday.![]()
Our relationships, interactions and emotions are filtered through these expectations and learned perceptions.![]()
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Why not change the algorythm and filters you're seeing the world through, appreciate new things and learning...it will improve your mental wealth.![]()
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How many apps do you have open that are draining your battery?![]()
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Just as sometimes we need to close apps, turn off permissions/notifications and recharge our phones, perhaps we need to do this for ourselves....![]()
Close off things that are no longer helpful to us. Change the unlimited access to us. Find healthy ways to Reset and recharge.![]()
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