Tag: Emotions

​Nervous System Regulation—Free Mental Health Care

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A healthy, regulated nervous system is vital for good mental health. The nervous system is responsible for discerning our general wellbeing and it warns us when we’re no longer safe. For example, we may be experiencing fear or heightened anxiety in the face of a confrontational conversation with someone we love. We may feel that by our hearts racing, having trouble thinking clearly, shortness of breath, or wanting to run away as we’re having that conversation. Other times, we may shut down, disconnect or ghost people in order to avoid a challenging situation. In any of those scenarios, our nervous system is experiencing some sort of dysregulation through overstimulation or shut down. We do not feel safe and our nervous system is working properly by letting us know and moving us into the primal, protective part of our brain. 

Maybe we face that fear and address the challenging conversation a ...

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  • Anxiety
  • Breathe
  • Coping
  • Crisis
  • Effort
  • Emotions
  • Exhaustion
  • Mindset
  • Practice
  • Processing
  • Self-Care
  • Stress

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  • Deep Breathing
  • Emotions
  • Self-Regulation
  • anxiety
  • body care
  • breathing
  • change
  • coping
  • crisis
  • growth
  • reframe
  • rest
  • self-care
  • stress

Everything's Fine...

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“It’s fine.”  “Everything is fine.”  “I’m fine.”  Have you ever strung together these three sentences and thought to yourself, “shoot, I think I might not be fine”. 


About a year ago I was in a car accident that resulted in emergency surgery, a stay in the trauma center at the hospital, and a long recovery (in addition to other challenges). It was the most challenging and scary time in my life. I didn’t think that I was going to make it, and yet I would find myself telling my loved ones who came to visit me, “It’s fine.”  “Everything is fine.”  “I’m fine.” 


Why is it so hard to admit that sometimes we are not fine? It has taken me a while to figure out why I was so desperately pushing myself to be fine. Though I wanted those words to be true, what I wanted more than anything was for my loved ones to think and feel that those words were true.


Whet ...

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  • Breathe
  • Comfort
  • Communication
  • Coping
  • Emotions
  • Exhaustion
  • False self
  • Grief
  • Pain
  • Presence
  • Processing
  • Relationships

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  • Emotions
  • coping
  • emotons
  • feelings
  • friendships
  • grief
  • growth
  • intentional
  • relationships
  • trauma

Splitting

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I am a total sucker for songs with visceral lyrics; particularly those that appeal to my vocational field of mental health. One of the songs I've been listening to on repeat, is called "You're Somebody Else" by: flora cash. I love the chorus:


Well, you look like yourself

But you're somebody else

Only it ain't on the surface

Well, you talk like yourself

No, I hear someone else though

Now you're making me nervous 


From what I can gather the song is a farewell ode to a close friend and/or lover. It's in the framework of the song that I find so much affin ...

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  • Change
  • Coping
  • Decisions
  • Emotions
  • Empathy
  • Mindset
  • Processing
  • Relationships
  • Trauma

Tags:

  • Confidence
  • Emotions
  • Expectations
  • Hopes
  • abuse
  • balance
  • confusion
  • coping
  • feelings
  • friendships
  • growth
  • relationships
  • think
  • trauma

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