Some situations are simply out of your hands. When you realize there’s nothing you can do to change a specific outcome, practice acceptance. Letting go doesn’t mean giving up—it means making peace with uncertainty. And peace is exactly what worry tries to steal from you. Spend less time controlling others. Family members and strangers.
Calming Box Build Your Own Sustainable Platform: A 500-Word Guide to Taking Control and Reducing Your Anxiety
Build Your Own Sustainable Platform: Your 500-Word Guide to Taking Control and Reducing Your Anxiety How about we tackle your anxiety? Building your own sustainable…
Calming Box Calming the Fight or Flight Response to Trauma
Is there anxiety and depression that creeps in no matter how hard you try? Do you feel unsafe in your body? Does your mind race…
Choose Your Own Friend Destiny And Learn from Your Experience
One of the most valuable social skills we can develop is the ability to choose our own friends. While we don’t always have control over…
Strategies to survive trauma.
Calming Box is giving credit to the Body Awareness Workbook for Trauma by Julie Brown Yau, phd You learned survival strategies in frightening situations. Including…
The Emergence of the False Self
When faced with overwhelming experiences such as emotional neglect, abuse, or loss our human mind seeks ways to adapt and cope. For children, who were…
Breaking the Chains of Self-Criticism: Understanding Your Cognitive Systems
Breaking the chains of self criticism
Exploring Somatic Therapy: Healing Through Your Body
Somatic therapy is based on the understanding your beautiful body holds onto traumatic experiences. When you experience trauma, your body goes into a fight, flight, or freeze response, which get “stuck” if the trauma is not properly processed. This results in physical symptoms such as tension, pain, and chronic health issues, alongside emotional symptoms like anxiety, depression, and PTSD.
Understanding Toxic Relationships
Toxic relationships are characterized by emotionally and physically damaging behaviours.
Manipulation, control, belittlement, and a lack of support. Toxicity arises from: romantic partners, friends, colleagues, and even family members. Recognizing the signs early is crucial to protecting your well-being.
Embrace a Strength-Based Approach to Transform Hopelessness into Resilience
Build your own evidence instead of casting blame or using substances to ‘feel better’. They don’t work. They never will. Save your money instead of buying stuff.