As we struggle to persevere under the weight of anxiety, depression and mental distress, thriving takes a back seat to surviving. We all have a survivor within us; a part that carries us through the bad times and holds us together when we feel like falling apart. As "survivor" goes from being a part that protects us during times of stress to just who we are, it loses it's adaptive value.
From getting back to normal to redefining the boundaries of normal - there is a better way. With extensive training in trauma, attachment and neurology, I go beyond psychoanalytic and talk therapy - because unfortunately for most of us, if we were able to think our way out of our emotional state, we would have done it long ago.
From getting back to normal to redefining the boundaries of normal - there is a better way. With extensive training in trauma, attachment and neurology, I go beyond psychoanalytic and talk therapy - because unfortunately for most of us, if we were able to think our way out of our emotional state, we would have done it long ago.
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My journey into the world of mental health began at an early age, as I attempted to navigate the terrain of an emotionally turbulent environment. By the time I was in my teens, my emotional operating systems were so hard wired, they spoke in absolute, irrefutable truths. Even if I'd had any inclination to question those beliefs, I would have found evidence everywhere - when you constantly shut people out, they do tend to walk away.
Primarily unconsciously, and largely directed by implicit memory, we observe our external reality, interpret it, and attach meaning to it. We create a subjective internal experience. But the meaning we make depends on how we've learned to interpret and understand the world. And central to this understanding are our beliefs.
While it may seem like semantics at first blush, it's the difference between managing symptoms and treating the cause. The unfortunate truth is that the disease-model approach fosters surface-level care. And while symptom management is important, we don't want to be managing symptoms forever. When we look past the label to the underlying cause, the goals for therapy go from palliative care to curative treatment.
Our body has two basic operating systems; the "fight or flight" system and the "rest and digest" system. Both of these systems are vital and we need them both, but we need them in the right balance. And unfortunately, as a society, we are drastically out of balance.
Our bodies were never meant to be exposed to a sustained stress response, which is why chronic stress is implicated in obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disease and countless others.Imagine our brain as a room with one giant filing cabinet in the centre of it. The filing cabinet is made up of many drawers (representing memory networks), which are filled with many files (representing brain cells).
Our bodies were never meant to be exposed to a sustained stress response, which is why chronic stress is implicated in obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disease and countless others.Imagine our brain as a room with one giant filing cabinet in the centre of it. The filing cabinet is made up of many drawers (representing memory networks), which are filled with many files (representing brain cells).
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