Calming your nervous system
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...
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Fe Robinson
Jul 9, 20222 min read
Increasing vagal tone for a calmer life
Today I wanted to blog about increasing vagal tone. The vagus nerves are the longest in our body, and play a key role in the...
Fe Robinson
Jun 17, 20222 min read
Healing and recognising your wholeness
“Healing does not mean wallowing in or identifying with injury. Nor does it mean defensive inaction. It means having the courage to...
Fe Robinson
Jun 10, 20222 min read
The benefits of being in nature
Out walking a few weeks ago at Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire, my companion wished the trees could tell us the stories of all they...
Fe Robinson
May 20, 20222 min read
May all that enters pass through to ground
I’ve been using this affirmation of late to remind myself that whatever it is that I am experiencing is not ‘mine’ and it’s not stuck. ...
Fe Robinson
May 13, 20221 min read
Maternal Mental Health Month
May is Maternal Mental Health Month, and it’s a theme that resonates with me. We tend to think of maternal mental health as being a...
Fe Robinson
May 6, 20221 min read
Hacks for peak anxiety
We all have moments when anxiety is higher. When our underlying, day to day tension is high, anxiety peaks can easily become an issue. ...
Fe Robinson
May 6, 20222 min read
Full to overflowing, or full beyond capacity?
When a client tells me or shows me they are overwhelmed, what they are describing is an intense experience. For them, moving past the...
Fe Robinson
Apr 25, 20221 min read
Re-gaining perspective
It's sometimes the case that we lose perspective. When times are difficult, or emotions are intense, it is easy to imagine that whatever...
Fe Robinson
Apr 13, 20222 min read
Tapping into your instinctive sense of what's right for you
Congruence matters. That sense of rightness that you feel in your body that lets you know that what you are doing is aligned with what...
Fe Robinson
Apr 1, 20222 min read
The power of ending well
I blogged recently about the cost of not having an ending, of what happens when a relationship just stops, without it’s passing being...
Fe Robinson
Apr 1, 20223 min read
Shining your light to encourage others to shine
"There is a genius that can be found only in our coming together, and it's our combined abilities that elevate and strengthen us. True...
Fe Robinson
Mar 25, 20222 min read
Distress is not always about what IS happening...
It seems natural to be distressed when something awful has happened. A death. A traffic accident. Abuse. Faced with situations like...
Fe Robinson
Mar 25, 20223 min read
Finding a new road when you’re stuck in a rut
One of the most useful metaphors I have for the brain is to consider it as a road network. There are some thinking patterns that are...
Fe Robinson
Mar 18, 20222 min read
Going back leads back to what you want to get away from
It is a common wish, isn’t it, the desire to go back. ‘I wish things were the way they used to be’ or ‘I wish we got on like we did...
Fe Robinson
Mar 11, 20222 min read
Leaving well
I want to reflect today on the idea of leaving well. So often in modern living I hear stories of people disappearing from the lives of...
Fe Robinson
Feb 4, 20222 min read
Finding your bodily wisdom through grounding
As a psychotherapist and trauma therapist, a big theme in my work is somatic wisdom. The body remembers, we are all mammals, and to...
Fe Robinson
Feb 4, 20222 min read
Tuning into your neuroception
“Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows.” Native American Proverb, quoted by...
Fe Robinson
Jan 28, 20222 min read
The experiences we need to enable feelings of security and safety
I’ve recently been reading Daniel Brown and David Elliott’s work about attachment difficulties, which focuses on how to help adults who...
Fe Robinson
Jan 21, 20222 min read
Understanding your family's unspoken language
A colleague described beautifully to me the other day the power of unspoken communication in families. You know…the looks. The sighs. ...
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