Using music to reduce stress and improve social engagement
Safe and Sound Protocol-How 5 Hours of Music Calms
Based on Polyvagal Theory, the Safe and Sound program, is a five-hour audio intervention with calming effects for improved connection.
Reduce anxiety and depression with self-compassion
Cultivating Self-Compassion as a Path to Forgiveness
Self-Compassion sounds like a roundabout way to forgiveness, but resentment, revenge and silence often result in more suffering.
Identifying the source of stress is important for stress relief
Stress: Proven Ways to Manage and Reduce its Impact
As intuitive as it may seem, it's not work, finances, health or relationships that cause stress. Our stress is often caused by how we feel about these things.
Autogenic training- guided meditation for deep relaxation
Autogenic Training – Learn How to Manage High Stress
Autogenic training is a deep and powerful relaxation technique that can help you attain a calm regulated state by using repeated self-commands.
Sensory overload -adjust the dial down
Sensory Overload: What’s Your Threshold of Tolerance?
Sensory overload may show up as fatigue, irritability or shutting down. This can impact our sleep routines and create additional problems.
The power of one and hope
Maintaining Hope in Turbulent Times
Staying grounded helps us maintain hope in turbulent times. Maintaining empathy, perspective, staying grounded or mobilizing creates hope.
Feeling better is only the start of overcoming depression
Overcoming Depression: Going Beyond Feeling Better
Overcoming depression requires addressing deep rooted patterns of thinking and behaving that fuel depression.
In defense of defensiveness
In Defense of our Defense Mechanisms
The journey to self-compassion lies in developing greater tolerance of the body’s defense mechanisms that show up as defensiveness.
Therapy session-preparing for trauma work
Preparing for Trauma Work in Therapy
If you want to prepare for therapy, one of the best things you can do prior to your session is to do some background reading on how trauma manifests and about the therapeutic approach decided upon by you and your therapist.
