What are Coping Responses?
What Are Defensive Responses?
This article introduces defensive responses, focussing on fight, flight and freeze, as well as the underpinning psychological thinking.
What is Toxicity?
What are stressors?
Stressors are the things that put pressure, or stress, on a person’s mind or body and trigger a stress response.
Dynamic Reframing
What is Dynamic Reframing?
Dynamic Reframing is the coping process that runs in the mind, that corrects the person’s perceptual framing of the experience for minimal resistance as it moves through the stages of pre-thought, thought, reflection, understanding, judgement, acceptance.
and Coping Work?
How do Trauma, Stress, and Coping Work?
Trauma and stress are about the same system: your body and mind trying to keep you safe in the face of threat.
What is Safety?
What is Safety?
Safety Safety is about reducing the chances of getting hurt or harmed – physically, emotionally, or financially – so you can live your life with less fear and more freedom. It is never about removing all risk (which is impossible),…
Burnout
Burnout: The Nervous System under Chronic Threat
One key aspect of burnout, is the surrounding toxicity of your working environment. It might seem easy to ignore those things, even normalise them, however, every coping thought takes away your thinking time, and also your resilience to the impact of further toxic events, such as criticism from a colleague.