When high levels of stress drive us to burnout or to breaking down, we often berate ourselves for it. We may tell ourselves that we should be able to deal with these stresses and pressures, and still be upbeat and productive. Ironically, beating ourselves up in this way actually gets us the opposite – we lose more […]
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Some people might believe that you cannot heal fully from trauma or burnout. Healing is possible though, and if you don’t believe that to be true, commit to finding someone who is prepared to believe it for you whilst you cannot. Healing is a journey towards the smooth scar tissue. It really is a strange
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People that have worked with me will recognise what I mean by an emotional M.O. (modus operandi). It refers to a particular way or method of doing something: the way a person operates or works. We all have one and we are all born into one. It doesn’t have to remain fixed which is one
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Practising self-care and self-compassion are the most powerful tools you have in your recovery from trauma. Trauma, by the way, can come in many simple forms – a divorce, loss of your loved one, an accident, an attack. You may become a storm of fear, anxiety, and neurological disarray, which leaves you struggling to function. Here’s
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After years of working with people who’ve experienced trauma, I know that getting back a feeling of safety is the underpinning of the next steps towards recovery. Finding an external place of safety and an internal sense of safety can be difficult because in post-traumatic stress, the brain has absolutely no idea that it’s not
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How we see and observe what’s happening is crucial to recovery from trauma. It’s so important that complex information is palatable. This is how I see it! Someone in or on the verge of traumatic breakdown is a bundle of many symptoms. I needed to find a simple way of helping someone who is struggling
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Trauma is when you have a single event that’s so incredibly shocking to all senses, it’s completely and utterly overwhelming, and if something’s happened in your life that isn’t overwhelming it isn’t trauma. It’s really helpful to people who are traumatized to know that that’s the very nature of it: it is overwhelming to all
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It’s really important that I tell you now that everybody fears the unknown. Whilst traumatic breakdown takes you away from everything that you knew, loved and didn’t love, it’s put you in a place of not knowing anything at all. This I promise you doesn’t last but it does cause you great pain and fear.
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‘I’m often surprised to find problems that have existed right in front of me, in plain sight’. I’ve been searching all my life for better ways of seeing’. Ed Catmull. Creativity Inc. 2015 This has to be one of my favourite quotes from Ed Catmull‘s book Creativity Inc. Having read the book twice now I know
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Lead yourself with kindness through every aspect of your life and you will always lead others with kindness and not cruelty. Lead yourself with kindness and you can reform yourself, create your own dignity and foster the same in others. So many leaders, managers, professionals look back at their years of work and wonder why
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