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Have you ever felt the need to get outside to clear your head, or found that when surrounded by the trees or a field of grass, you feel calmer? Or perhaps you’ve discovered that when you hit a wall at work, a walk by a pond, lake, or sea gets the creative juices flowing? Well, there is a reason these kinds of environments have such an effect on us.

Welcome to the Emotional Regulation Series! In this series of posts, we will discuss in depth what emotions are, why it is essential to understand them, and how to best regulate them when they overwhelm us. We will start by trying to understand, in simple terms, what ‘emotions’ and ‘emotional regulation’ are and how they come to be. Emotions can be defined as a ‘multi-faceted, whole-body response’ to subjective experiences resulting in behavioural reactions. In straightforwar

What are emotional boundaries, and why are they important?

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”  —  Henry Ford