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This therapy blog serves to provide tips, tricks, and at home therapy techniques to try before accessing formal therapy or to compliment your current work in therapy.
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In today’s society, we are expected to be switched on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It’s normal to live surrounded by noise, voices, busyness and a ton of distractions. We can feel that withdrawing and getting away from things for a few days is the solution, yet we can re-enter our lives feeling just as tired and overwhelmed as when we left - why?
Read MoreIf you’re of a certain ‘vintage’ (I know I am!), you may recall a song called ‘Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm’ by Crash Test Dummies. A big global hit in the 90’s, it’s mostly memorable for singer Brad Robert’s resonant humming of the song title.
How does this link with today’s blog? Well, it may sound a bit unusual and strange, but one helpful technique for lowering stress is called ‘vocal toning’.
Read MoreMindfulness can be encapsulated as awareness that comes through paying purposeful attention, without judgement while staying in the present. I know that could seem a bit confusing, so maybe it is more simply put as “noticing”.
Read MoreWe can be greatly affected by the things we notice around us.
Triggers can be over-simplified as benign events that have an interpretation or meaning for each individual.
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