What Are Defensive Responses?
This article introduces defensive responses, focussing on fight, flight and freeze, as well as the underpinning psychological thinking.
This article introduces defensive responses, focussing on fight, flight and freeze, as well as the underpinning psychological thinking.
Transcendence therapy is a form of psychotherapy that aims to help people overcome their psychological distress by accessing a higher state of consciousness.
Grounding is about bringing your attention back to the here‑and‑now, especially when overwhelmed, anxious, or pulled into bad memories.
Traumatic flashbacks are moments when a past experience feels as if it is happening again right now, even though you are actually safe.
Overwhelm is what happens when there is so much to deal with that it feels like “too much” for the mind or body. It often makes a person feel stressed, flooded, or unable to think clearly and decide what to do next.
Being human is messy, beautiful, painful, confusing, and deeply meaningful, and all at the same time. It means having a body that gets tired and breaks, a mind that thinks and worries, and a heart that feels joy, fear, love, shame, and everything in between