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I am often asked by clients how to manage when feelings become overwhelming. There are many ways to calm your nervous system and come...

I was asked recently for some tips about coping when your feelings feel too big to manage. Thankfully, there are so many ways to...

I’ve been reminded several times in recent weeks of the power of working with the structure of the way we ‘hold’ experiences, rather than...

“A conversation about how you feel is not supposed to end in an argument” The Mind Journal I’ve been reflecting recently on themes of...

"We all need freedom and security, which is why when the world doesn’t feel safe, we often don’t feel as free." Esther Perel At first...

Our relationship with our self is the most important one we work on in psychotherapy, given our self-relations inform all of our...

I wanted to reflect today on the nature of feeling, which is understandably a recurrent and important theme in therapeutic work. It’s a...

I've been writing recently about regulating your nervous system to be grounded and calm to give yourself the flexibility to feel and...

One of the key jobs of therapeutic work is to help clients to be able to calm their nervous system so that their default way of being...

When a client tells me or shows me they are overwhelmed, what they are describing is an intense experience. For them, moving past the...

It seems natural to be distressed when something awful has happened. A death. A traffic accident. Abuse. Faced with situations like...

Anger is an unpopular emotion, and frankly it gets quite a bad press. The caricature of an angry person is red faced, steam coming out...

Often, what brings clients into therapy is a reticence to experience their feelings. This can show up in all sorts of ways, in low mood...

The opposite of repression and suppression is not expression, its awareness. I heard Andrew Seubert make this excellent observation in a...

I was listening to Andrew Seubert recently talking about The Courage To Feel. I liked the way he described feelings, as embodied...

Sometimes clients come into therapy wanting to be absolved of guilt when they have done something they regret. Guilt is painful, and this...

One of the central themes of therapeutic work is how client’s experience their feelings. For some, there is overwhelm. For others, a...

I often hear people saying they cope with emotions and thoughts by avoiding them. Sometimes, it may feel the only option available. ...