Rewiring Limiting Belief Systems

Discipline and focus are key skills to acquire in life to apply to our work, our goals, and our day to day tasks. But one common...

Did you know that a constant sense of urgency and rushing are trauma responses? This could show up as a need to do it all and figure it...

Remember, you are forming a relationship with your inner child. This takes time, patience, and trust. The more you consciously dedicate...

Do you want to better understand your emotions so you can regulate and communicate them? First things first, we need to build emotional...

How often have you set a boundary and felt guilty afterwards? Guilt can push you straight into a negative thought spiral and make you...

Let's normalise replacing reactivity with vulnerability. Showing others what is going on internally, when it is done with intention, is a...

Self-sabotaging behaviour is often a habit, and like any other habit, it takes time to develop new ones. However, there are some helpful...

Last week, we discussed how sometimes we can process unmet needs as obligations, and how that can feel and present in a relationship...

Sometimes, people can feel an inappropriate responsibility for those around them. At times this is the cause of distancing: attempting to...

The theory behind CBT is that we have our awareness, which is our conscious brain, and we have our subconscious brain. The subconscious...

I mentioned sleep procrastination in last week's blog post 'a key function of sleep that we don't talk about' if you haven't read it yet,...

One key function of sleep that we don't talk about and may be affecting you is something called 'the executive brain.' Have you heard of...

Feeling overly-responsible can quickly become normalised. For example, it can be encouraged in the workplace to consistently take on more...

Yep, you read that right. Coping skills are often used when you're feeling high anxiety levels as a way to reduce or get rid of the...

Defence mechanisms are our mind’s way of protecting us against difficult emotions. I’m sure we’ve all heard of humour as a defence...

So, what do we mean when we say we are triggered? Being triggered means that you're experiencing past pain in the present moment. It can...

Back by popular demand! What is the connection between trauma, over-explaining and oversharing? Both over-explaining and oversharing fall...

The need to over-explain is often formed in childhood in response to a fear of being criticised, rejected or abandoned if others don't...

Unpopular opinion: understanding individualised drains and how to limit or avoid is a milestone for empaths. An even harder milestone is...

When I first started my career, I was a pastoral manager in a mainstream secondary school. I was the manager of 800 of the most...