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Women in Recovery – Six Misconceptions

Addiction is sometimes known as an equal opportunities illness, cutting across age, socio economic position, gender and race, though much empirical evidence to connects both substance and process addictions to pre-existing risk factors and contextual Read more…

By Zoe Southcott, 12 months ago February 3, 2020
Addiction

Gender and Addiction Q and A

Despite the fact that much empirical evidence to connects addictions to pre-existing risk factors addiction is sometimes known as an equal opportunities illness, cutting across age, socio economic position, gender, and race. But the experience Read more…

By Zoe Southcott, 2 years ago June 21, 2019
Counselling

Building Mastery and Coping Ahead

 Introduction The Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills building mastery and coping ahead are based on building and appreciating the feeling of achievement. This feeling is most often created when we achieve a goal or accomplish something Read more…

By Zoe Southcott, 2 years ago June 17, 2019
Counselling

INTERPERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS – BOUNDARIES AND ASKING FOR CHANGE

  Sometimes asking in clear and specific ways for what you want can bring up difficult feelings like anxiety and self-doubt, many people struggle with a sense that their needs are not valid and that Read more…

By Zoe Southcott, 2 years ago May 9, 2019
DBT

TRIGGER THOUGHTS, THOUGHT DIFFUSION, AND COPING THOUGHTS

Trigger Thoughts, Thought Diffusion, and Coping Thoughts.   Trigger thoughts are those thoughts that cause emotional pain and suffering, if you get stuck on your trigger thoughts, you probably experience overwhelming emotions more frequently than Read more…

By Zoe Southcott, 2 years ago April 29, 2019
DBT

RADICAL ACCEPTANCE – DISTRESS TOLERANCE

RADICAL ACCEPTANCE The word dialectic in dialectical behaviour therapy, means to find balance between change and acceptance. You need to change those patterns of thought and behaviour in your life that are creating suffering whilst Read more…

By Zoe Southcott, 2 years ago April 23, 2019
DBT

RECOGNISING YOUR EMOTIONS – A SIX STEP PROCESS

Emotional Regulation Skills RECOGNISING YOUR EMOTIONS – A SIX STEP PROCESS 1. What happened? Describe the situation (not the emotions) that lead to your emotions. 2. Why did that situation happen? Identify the causes of Read more…

By Zoe Southcott, 2 years ago April 23, 2019
distresstolerance

The Therapeutic Use of Meditation

  What Is Meditation?   Meditation practices are techniques that encourage and develop a range of positive mental, emotional, and physical effects including: • concentration • serenity • positivity • clarity • relaxation Through practicing Read more…

By Zoe Southcott, 2 years ago April 23, 2019
Counselling

Transactional Analysis: Life Positions

Eric Berne, author of The Games People Play, described how the decisions about ourselves, our world and our relationships with others are crystallized during our first 5 years of life. These decisions are based on Read more…

By Zoe Southcott, 2 years ago March 22, 2019
Counselling

Creative Journaling – Dreaming on the Page

  Diaries of thoughts, feelings, and experiences, have been most often kept in the form of the written word.  But when it comes to exploring feelings, thoughts, dreams, and visions of the future, drawing, painting, Read more…

By Zoe Southcott, 2 years ago March 1, 2019

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