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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

One of the first steps you can take to improve your mental well-being is to understand the processes that contribute to it. Today, we will discuss Catastrohpising, a self-defence mechanism meant to identify and deal with any potential threats quickly.

Gratitude is powerful

What is self-soothing? Self-soothing is the act of calming yourself during intense emotional stress. It helps you regulate overwhelming feelings triggered by a stressor and manage your body's fight-or-flight response. Once a stressor triggers the fight-or-flight response, you may feel jittery, nauseous, numb, or have trouble sleeping. This response can be overwhelming. A self-soothing technique can help by targeting the parasympathetic nervous system, using fluid and repetiti

Emotion-focused coping involves managing your emotional reactions to a stressor, rather than trying to change the stressful situation itself.

Problem-focused coping is ‘a stress-management strategy in which a person directly confronts a stressor in an attempt to decrease or eliminate it’

Loneliness is defined as a state of separation from others and a lack of companionship. However, it is also the experience or feeling of a lack of quality connection from those whose time and company we value, otherwise referred to as social isolation.

We're so happy your here! Here's why it all started... Yours Truly is a project which has been sitting at the back of my mind for a while...