Not Good Enough Gremlins
What happens when your not good enough gremlins take over and your emotions are in control of you? I was triggered this week and I noticed a change Continue reading “Not Good Enough Gremlins”
Category: Mental Health
What is Anger?
What is Anger?
Anger is one of our core emotions. Emotions are complex feelings we experience mentally, physically and behaviourally:
- Mentally we experience our emotions and feelings.
- Physically we feel them through awareness, tension and feelings in our body from the pit of our stomach to the tips of our fingers.
- Behaviourally we experience our feelings and emotions as an impulse to act.
What is Overwhelm?
What is Overwhelm?
Overwhelm is the emotional feeling of being overwhelmed. It is an emotional feeling which can take over with an intensity that feels difficult to manage. It can affect your ability to think and act rationally and evoke anxiety and stress. Continue reading “What is Overwhelm?”
Reading is good for Mental Health
Reading is good for your Mental Health
There are many ways to support your own mental health and one of them is reading. It may seem surprising but reading can be extremely beneficial to your mental health. Getting lost in a good book with your imagination and transported to that moment in the story can feel like nectar to the mind and soul. Continue reading “Reading is good for Mental Health”
Kindness and Compassion
Put the Human into Humanity
I am struck by how covid-19 evokes a sense of detachment in many of us. To protect us we are not allowed to be within 2 metres of one and other, we can not hug each other and the detachment these restrictions are enforcing upon us are unusual human behaviours. Continue reading “Kindness and Compassion”
What makes us Human?
What makes us Human?
Many in the past have asked this question and I expect many more will ask in the future. Here are my thoughts on what makes us human.
Compassion, kindness and understanding, our ability to love and equally our ability to hate. Our rational thoughts and processes, which drive us consciously and unconsciously. Continue reading “What makes us Human?”
Healing my Inner Child
My Inner Child
Whilst I was healing my inner child I was losing my Mum to Dementia. As her mind slowly deteriorated to the disease I would talk to her to try and find out details of the childhood I have no memory of. I wanted details of who I was as her child and I wanted proof that my wounded inner child was not my fault and that it was OK to heal and let go of the past. Continue reading “Healing my Inner Child”
A Shielding Counsellor
Shielding
I am a shielding counsellor! Since 13th March 2020 I have been shielding at home with my family. During this time I have continued working in my private practise, Caroline Ellison Counselling and as a volunteer counsellor for the Fountain Centre at St Luke’s, Royal Surrey Hospital, meeting with clients each week over the telephone and online using Zoom. Continue reading “A Shielding Counsellor”
Online Counselling using Zoom
Online Counselling
With the onset of lockdown in 2020 many of us transitioned from face-to-face counselling to online counselling using zoom. Zoom has become an essential online tool for continued counselling and support and I have found Zoom to be a wonderful medium to work with as a counsellor. Continue reading “Online Counselling using Zoom”
Benefits of Nature on Mental Health
Benefits of Nature on Mental Health
I love being out in nature and find it a constant source of inspiration, relaxation which helps to recharge the batteries. The benefits of nature on mental health have been proven time and time again to help reduce anxiety, stress, depression, bereavement and even anger.
If you go out for a walk look up and see the sky through the canopy of trees, it is a beautiful different perspective on nature and the beauty of where we live.