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You cannot think your way out of a body that is braced. This area starts there: the breath, the ground under you, moving, eating, resting, and the small physical things that change how the rest of the day lands.
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The same breathing serves different jobs at different times. Early on it may be there to help you sleep and stay contained. Later it may be there to help you feel more, not less.
This is worth knowing so you do not judge yourself for finding a practice useful now that was useless six months ago, or the other way round. In the…
Do not stop dead. Give the end of anything energetic a few minutes of winding down, so the change of gear is a routine rather than a demand.
Stopping is a transition, and transitions are where things fall apart for a lot of people. A short unwinding phase, the same one every time, takes…
Move just before the difficult task, not after it as a reward. Five minutes of skipping, stairs or running on the spot, then sit down to the thing.
The window straight after moving is when focus is at its best, so that is the bit worth spending on whatever you have been dreading. For a child,…
A skill that lives in your own body and your own phone stays with you after the appointments stop. That is worth choosing for.
Plenty of what helps during treatment ends when the relationship does. This does not. People often say afterwards that the breathing thing was the…
Neurofeedback usually starts with an assessment, then a block of sessions, then a review, and it is mostly paid for privately. Ask about all of that before you begin.
It is a referral rather than something your therapist adds to a session, so you are taking on a second appointment, a second bill and a second…
Feeling worse as things get safer is confusing, and it is common. When the guard finally comes down, whatever it was holding down gets felt.
This shows up when someone starts a calming practice, or moves somewhere safer, and instead of relief they get grief, irritability or a wave of old…
Getting ill the week after the exams, the deadline or the funeral is not bad luck. It is the pattern.
You hold together through the push, and the moment it stops you are in bed with something. Often it was already brewing while you were still going.…