Staying in the same place and environment can keep you stuck in routines and constantly retriggering old patterns. A healing adventure to a new place, experiencing new things and interesting people can be just the thing to shift you out of that rut, and break you out of that cage…
Nature
Mother Nature can be a calming, healing and restoring influence; walking, hiking, swimming – getting your blood circulating – inhaling fresh air in the forest, drinking pure mountain water, listening to the birds, floating with the river… just relaxing and enjoying the beauty…
Relationship
You are suffering mainly because of these emotional schemas that were formed through relationship with people. That’s why new positive healing relationships are the key to feeling safe and secure enough to change those old schemas. Therapy can be a healing relationship…
Learning
We can only use the neural pathways that we were born with and those that we build through our own experiences and choices. By studying and learning we create new pathways to think and feel into and by having mind-blowing experiences we give ourselves new pathways to live and leap into…
Mindfulness
Mindfulness can help you to calm down and relax, to be more present in the moment, to bring awareness to whatever it is you’re doing, and to feel your way back into the aliveness of your body and more fully experience your own consciousness. It can also help you observe your thought processes….
Embodiment
Feeling your way back into your body so that you can locate where tension, muscle clenching, dissociative trauma and terror are trapped. It’s about inhabiting your organism, embodying your emotions and beliefs, moving freely, becoming more spontaneous, more authentic… more you….
Medicine
Pharmaceutical and plant-based medicines can be very useful during the healing process but they can also be harmful and counter-productive; they both have their pros and cons and there are no quick-fix medicinal “cures” for psychological problems….
Talisman
A talisman can be any object or thing of beauty that you find in your special place of tranquility, which allows you to carry that feeling away with you, and take it home so you can revisit it. You charge it up with awe and wonder, infinity and divinity, whatever rocks your world…
Service
By helping other people and serving your community or even just doing something nice for someone else or playing with a kid and making them smile, you can feel connected and attuned again, and a real sense of meaning and purpose, and gain some perspective on your suffering…
Art
Drawing, painting, photography, videography etc. are all ways of expressing ourselves without talking – transmuting our pain and suffering into something meaningful and even beautiful. Creativity is soothing and healing and is a vital part of the therapeutic process, especially with kids…
Movies
Movies allow us to live many lives and have many adventures, to feel things that someone else felt and put into a story, and even to liberate our own stuck energies through the epiphany of the protagonist. Disney’s ‘Inside Out’ and ‘Brave’ were revelations for us and even Marvel’s ‘Iron man’ helped with processing trauma…
Music
Music, similarly, can hold the feeling and spirit of the artist and if you really allow it into your heart it can also become a part of you. There’s some songs that have that rare quality of making you forget the context of the world… you lose yourself in the dance, and it lifts your spirit…