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5 Ways To Feel Better Without Therapy: Part Three, Managing Emotions

5 Ways To Feel Better Without Therapy: Part Three, Managing Emotions

February 28, 2022

Have you ever reacted to someone in the heat of the moment and afterwards looked back wishing you had responded differently? Do you find yourself feeling overwhelmed by emotion and notice it affects your ability to focus or be present? Most of us find ourselves in these situations some of the time, but if this happens often to you, you may be having problems regulating (calming) your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anxiety, Self-care, stress, Therapy, Trauma Tagged With: anxiety, claire de boer, depression, emotional regulation, hyperarousal, hypoarousal, panic, therapy, window of tolerance

Holding a Glass orb, Safe Haven Counselling, Counselling Surrey BC

5 Ways To Feel Better Right Now Without Therapy: Part Two, Reframe Your Perspective

January 22, 2022

"Feel the feelings, drop the story." Pema Chodron. Studies show we have between 60,000 and 90,000 thoughts per day. That's a lot, and if they all contributed towards making ourselves into the best human we can possibly be, happiness would seem far less elusive. Unfortunately many of those thoughts are repeated multiple times throughout the day. Some of them may be checklists of things we don't … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anxiety, CBT, Depression, Self esteem, Self-care, Therapy Tagged With: anxiety, CBT, claire de boer, inner critic, inner dialogue, maladaptive thoughts, perceptions, safe haven counselling, self-compassion, self-esteem, self-kindness

Girl Blowing on Dandelion, Safe Haven Counselling, Counselling Surrey BC

What to Do When You Can’t Change the Outcome

August 23, 2019

Have you ever felt powerless? As though you are no longer in the driving seat and not really sure if you ever were? No need to answer; it's part of the human condition. We like to be in control—to know that the small plot of land we are in charge of, namely our own lives, are ours to groom, pull out weeds and plant seeds as we wish. But our neat little gardens rarely stay well manicured—before … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anxiety, CBT, Journaling, Self-care, stress Tagged With: anxiety, claire de boer, control, counselling, faith, God, self care, Surrender, viktor frankl

Man who is grieving on bridge, Grief Counselling

The Work of Grief: Making it Through the First Few Months

May 3, 2018

"If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they don’t — if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake each morning thinking, I cannot continue to live — well, then we pathologize their pain; we call their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anxiety, Depression, Grief, Self-care, stress Tagged With: 5 stages of grief, anxiety, bereavement, depression, divorce, grief, grief and loss, mourning, trauma

Quote by Paulo Coelho, Safe Haven Counselling, Counselling Surrey BC

Why Facing Your Biggest Fear Will Be Your Greatest Breakthrough

March 6, 2018

When my ex-husband and I separated a few years ago my biggest fear was loneliness. Push me out of a plane (parachute attached of course); dangle me from a 2,000 ft tall building (knock me out first), but please God don't let me be alone. It seems God is messing with me though, because here I am, facing my worst fear, the one I've spent a lifetime avoiding. Don't we always eventually come … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anxiety, Depression, Relationships, Self esteem Tagged With: anxiety, depression, fear

Depression Counselling, Safe Haven Counselling, Counselling Surrey BC

10 Ways To Ease Depression With Only Your Pen

January 4, 2018

"Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." — Leonard Cohen. One of my struggles since childhood has been with depression. From as early as I can remember I wondered why my school friends found it so easy to just be a kid, while I could only seem to observe their laughter from the fringes, surrounded by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Anxiety, Depression, Journaling, Self-care, stress, Trauma Tagged With: anxiety, depression, journaling, writing

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