Tracking in psychological terms involves more than monitoring progress, emotions, triggers, and beliefs. It includes observing how emotions manifest physically in your body. In trauma-informed psychotherapy, creating awareness around body sensations and embodied experiences is essential. This practice fosters a sense of presence, power, and connection, enhancing security and well-being within ourselves.
Read MoreAs a woman, and working mostly with female clientele, I find it important to talk about femininity, having a healthy connection to our bodies, and feeling confident/safe in our womanhood.
Connection to our bodies and embracing femininity is somewhat taboo still.
We are not taught to have a strong sense of self, or celebration of our curves. We are not usually encouraged to feel connected and empowered in our bodies.
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Don’t assume that your emotions are facts!
They are real, they are happening, and you should pay attention to them, however, don’t assume that they are cold hard FACT.
FELT SENSE of emotion does not equal FACT in reality.
For example, you can feel one way internally, however, the meaning you attach to it could be completely false.
That meaning can then lead you to self-sabotaging behaviors, harmful thoughts, and put you into a negative feedback cycle.
There has been a lot of uproar lately about the new Weight Watchers — Kurbo app, designed for children and adolescents 8-17 to promote weight-loss, calorie counting (via the “points system”) and a “healthier lifestyle.”
I absolutely want us to educate, inspire, and support children from a young age to live their healthiest lives. However, being a chubby child who dieted all my childhood and young adult life, and now being an eating disorder professional (psychotherapist), I think it’s important to do some education on the damage of this philosophy behind “weight-loss.” I’ve seen it first hand, and it’s been proven again and again, that childhood weight-loss efforts can lead to or often worsen disordered eating and body image issues!
Read MoreDoing the work isn't always fun. Yet it is necessary!
Don't let "not feeling like it" derail you or get too loud in your head.
There are a ton of things that I don't feel like doing, yet, I love results, so I do them anyways.
Some tips to help you take action and do the things you don't really want to do!
Fear at best is an emotion that is trying to keep us safe, however, more often than not, fear is a perception problem keeping us stuck. This is why some people say that FEAR is an acronym that stands for “False Evidence Appearing Real.” I have a revised and helpful version of an acronym below that will help you deconstruct and stand up to your fears!
Read MoreAs we move into the summer months, a very popular topic of conversation is body image and being comfortable in one’s skin. The summer months tend to expose a lot of skin, metaphorically and literally, bringing up a lot of vulnerability, self-consciousness, guilt, shame, comparison and more.
I’ve found that body image is a multi layered phenomenon and experience. It is complex, impacts many areas of our lives, and can affect both your mental and physical wellbeing.
In order to have a healthy body image, it is important to identify where you get most of your body image messages.
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