I help people build better relationships with themselves. Person centred therapist in training @carebackpack@mastodon.social By @gem_hill
Joined January 2020
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I'm running an in person affirmations workshop! Spend some time creating an affirmation for 2024! December 14th, @FriendsMtgHouse Tickets are pay what you want, min of £3 to cover supplies.
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i don't think "therapy speak" actually comes from therapy tho. it comes from online. i've literally never had a therapist use words like "toxic" and "trauma dumping" in a session lol
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A brilliant article by @Gem_Hill on mental health awareness week/months and why bite size bits of advice usually sucks
And imo this extends to most 2 hour mental health courses offered by employers open.substack.com/pub/selfca…
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saying “boundaries” when you mean “demands” needs to stop
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Covid-19 was a difficult time, particularly for those of us living with mental illness.
This is our chance to feed into the independent investigations being run by the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.
Our stories matter. Help the inquiry see the full picture 👉 everystorymatters.co.uk
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"But it made you strong."
It didn't though. It made them learn everything they could to try and make sure it stopped happening and never happened again. And many times that was not enough. That isn't strength. It's survival mode and it's really costly short and long-term.
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This week's free #Substack is about when you sit with your feelings...and it's fine? There's nothing you need to do, no significant learning, and how that in and of itself is important. There's also an invite to the SCB discord community! Sign up here: selfcarebackpack.substack.co…
ALT I spent years untangling trauma, which meant I treated any intense feeling as something to explore.
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Thought I attached the #sketchnote of @Gem_Hill / @CareBackpack workshop!
Here it us!
My second one ever!
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But in that Maddie Ziegler not being autistic wasn't what made that movie bad.
It was someone trying to tell that story without any connection to the community and therefore any sense of history or what we've generally come to regard as hurtful storytelling.
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i hate this thing y’all do where u take patterns of behavior that are often rooted in trauma and call them manipulative. u don’t manipulate people unconsciously without intention. that’s just not how that works.
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My own personal bugbear here is the 'Toxic Positivity' phenomenon
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The idea that you can 'choose' to be happy, to have good wellbeing? It's a short leap from there to blaming people for their own #mentalhealth problems. Because they chose 'wrongly'
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I have some of my encouragement cards on my wall. I also have some in my bag that I carry around with me. Every one of these messages is one I've given myself. You can buy these over on the SCB site buff.ly/3NrK0pO
ALT A photo of the SelfCare Backpack Encouragement cards. Nine small, square cards, with an encouraging message and a small handdrawn flower
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From @peternlimberg
"Hurt people, hurt people. The inverse is also true, as my friend Nicolas Benjamin said to us yesterday in a moment of channeled inspiration: “healed people heal people.”
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People only like you because youre kind and and smart lmao. You only have friends because your presence puts people at ease and makes their day easier lol
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How does meditation affect your brain?
This is, indeed, a big question.
But it's #BrainAwarenessWeek, so let's have a go regardless
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I GUESS my unpopular opinion is that mental health is happening in your BRAIN, which is a part of your body. If your BRAIN needs a break, your body needs a break. Prioritizing your mental health is prioritizing your body. Your BRAIN IS A BODY PART.
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Meditation making stuff worse is actually pretty common bc it’s currently the darling of the biopsychosocial gaslighters & is prescribed to everyone regardless of if it’s appropriate bc of absurd beliefs abt non-medication therapies being harmless
