Simple Guides
What is Trauma-Related Hyperarousal?
Normal stress and trauma-related hyperarousal both use the same body systems, but they differ in what sets them off,
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.
Simple Guides
What is Bullying?
Bullying is not just “being mean.” It is a pattern where someone repeatedly hurts, scares, or controls another person, on purpose, to feel safer, stronger, or less ashamed inside. It often starts as a way to cope with their own fear of being blamed, mocked, or rejected.
Awareness Integration Theory
Self-Awareness
Self-awareness is the conscious recognition and understanding of one’s own thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and their underlying patterns, often serving as the foundation for personal growth and therapeutic interventions like Awareness Integration Theory
Adaptive Coping
The Authenticity Paradox
Authenticity, I suggest, is a continuum, a spectrum of stages, that may never end, since the self is a largely unknown thing, and that exploration of self, if done with regular determination, is always going to be revealing “new stuff”.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
The Developmental Truth of Childhood
Almost all children suffer a sustained and often targeted string of traumatic micro, and macro-aggressions, from the moment they are born.
Carl Jung
Could our Cells be Quantum Entangled?
It could be suggested, that in some way, our “cells” are connected via quantum entanglement, and this unseen and highly symbolic communication, is the source of Jung’s collective unconscious, which is also quietly, updating our codes?
Belnap-Dunn 4-value Model
Binary Therapies – Finding the Rainbow in the Black and the white
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a recently introduced therapy which has shown very good results, but has had a number of criticisms based on our lack of understanding as to exactly how it works.
Carl Jung
Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)
Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) is a complex condition that affects how the brain and body communicate.
Internal family systems
Internal family systems
In this article, we will introduce the main concepts and principles of IFS, explain how it differs from other forms of psychotherapy, and provide some examples of how it can be applied in clinical practice.