Insights, research & tips – your way.
A collection of articles exploring mental health, psychotherapy and the science behind how we think, feel and relate. I share evidence-based insights on relationships and attachment, recurring patterns, the nervous system, emotional wellbeing and meaningful change.
Four Key Steps to Set Boundaries, Effectively!
Where You End and I Begin. I think the title captures it perfectly! We can become enmeshed with each other and other people’s feelings. We feel responsible and are unable to pull away or are strongly affected by the emotions of others.
What happens to your brain when experiencing trauma?
Trauma changes your brain, and it changes how you relate to the present. The key takeaway from the conference with Bessel van Der Kolk for me was, that after a traumatic incident different parts of the brain don’t work together as well anymore