by Evan Dwan | Sep 20, 2022 | News |
Mental health problems often arise as a result of the following processes: Disclaiming one’s emotions; preserving past emotional responses in the present; emotion dysregulation (distress) and the construction of particular narratives or stories about oneself (being...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 20, 2022 | News |
In order to heal, we must learn how to feel. Les Greenberg describes how states of feeling are different from states of thinking. To feel is a slow process that requires us to slow down. To create a space for feeling when we become aware of a feeling, we can use the...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 18, 2022 | News |
Core emotions refer to emotional responses when we do not try to block, mask, mute or distort them. Hilary Jacobs Hendel describes core emotions as physical sensations that we recognise and name an as emotion. They give us information about our environment such as...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 6, 2020 | News |
Within what is called our ‘window of tolerance’ we feel calm, centred, and content. But when we move outside of that window of tolerance our energy becomes too high and we become hyper-aroused (anxious, angry) or too low and we become hypo-aroused (low, depressed,...
by Evan Dwan | Mar 27, 2020 | News |
The other evening, I was walking in the mountains. It was late in the day and the sun was shining in a slanted way, making the whole world look lovely. Great greens and browns filled the hills and valleys. The air was still, the land quiet. No wind stirred, the only...
