Overwhelm and burnout don’t just happen in Covid times – these are themes I’ve been working for since the very beginning of my counselling career. It’s when our nervous system becomes overloaded, and we really struggle to regulate ourselves; feeling either anxious and agitated, or zoned out and flat.
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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.
Read MoreWhether 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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Read MoreWe all reach for our phone much more than we think we do, and we interrupt our connection to ourselves as much as we do to others with the constant punctuation of online notifications. So, here's my two top tips if you're thinking of getting started...
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