Myth 1: People who self-harm are attempting suicide Fact: Self-harm is most often used as a way to keep living despite experiencing emotional distress, rather than […]
Threat Management (1) We are generally quite familiar with descriptions of our Fight or Flight response to immediate danger; this is the up-regulation of our Central […]
Threat Management (3) When working with people adapting to horrible circumstances and then supporting them to make a life beyond merely surviving, a number of other […]
Threat Management (4) In summary so far, the responses outlined above are the immediate moving aggressively towards or backing away from physical danger: Mastering of Danger. […]
Threat Management (5) In this final blog of the series on common strategies that everyday people use to survive situations that threaten harm to their bodies, […]
What is Mindfulness? Currently, this fashionable catchphrase is everywhere and promoted as the cure for everything from improving your relationship to weight loss. So what is […]
Almost every self-help approach will advocate Journaling as a tool for emotional processing, but so often it simply doesn’t work. This is because there are foundational […]
Distress, Dysfunction, Danger A person has a disorder of their personality when they don’t feel safe and secure in the world; they do not assume their […]