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Lessons from the ebb - how to get through when life draws back

We're in an ebb season, collectively, I think. And we're not encouraged to think about this at all. The effects of the pandemic, here in the UK, have been upon us for eleven months. And what’s been so surprising is how little accommodation we will often make for this. We’re living in a global tragedy – a collective trauma. Life has, necessarily, had to recede. We have had to lean hard on our internal resources – our patience, our hope, our tenacity. Understandably, we’re feeling a little depleted.

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Writing a regulation recipe - an antidote to overwhelm

Whether the feeling of stuckness has been brought about through stress, loss, heightened anxiety or low mood, the central factor is that we become dysregulated; our system can feel flooded. As one young woman said in my practice room recently, ‘I’m just over it’. And we need to administer an antidote.

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