Recent content by Joie

Is there a difference?

First, I too am really sorry to hear about what has happened for you. It isn't okay to film or record a person without their consent. Where I live it is illegal. If a therapist did it without consent, s/he'd be struck off and likely taken to court. The client/therapist relationship should be...

In today's Sunday Times Magazine, India Knight has an interesting article about how too men woman are looking for fairy tale heroes. She cites the story of Helen Bailey, the widowed and bereaved children's author, who got chatting to a man who, online, appeared to meet such fantastical criteria...

Hello and I'm sorry for the confusion your friend is causing you. What I say next I do so with compassion for you and your son. Might it be important to remember you need to feel safe here too? That having a reliable, available partner is important? Is there some reason you are settling for...

I'm familiar with people saying they 'have' either anxiety or depression but you are right, they are experiences in the same way rain or lightening can roll past us. Neither rain nor lighting are at fault any more than depression or anxiety, they are just experiences. But some may feel sad...

Thanks...I've been doing twice daily x 60 minute meditation/mindfulness sessions for some time, know Christine Kneff and the others work. As part of my own path and quite awhile back I did an MBSR course. I began the thread because I'm interested in other's experience. I began meditation...

Here's something I'd like to discuss: I've recently been interested in therapeutic approaches to anxiety and depression that suggest both can be habits we turn to for protection (and as a learned behavior)--largely in times of emotional overwhelm. And that if we give permission for the emotions...

I resisted thinking anxiety was dissociative for a long time. The day I felt/realised it WAS for me was the day I began to get relief. It was the therapists I mentioned earlier who directed me to that realization and through my meditation. But that realization wasn't something I could have...

One bit of advice I got is to PAUSE when strong feelings or flashbacks hit us. Instead, I was urged to allow the emotions generated via conditioning to roll through our hearts and bodies rather than reacting to them too soon by sending emails or saying something we may regret. Especially when...

Hello LFS: In my experience and those of published therapists whose work I've found to be my salvation (Tara Brach: Radical Acceptance; Peter Walker: Complex PTSD; Paul Gilbert; Alice Miller), YES: anxiety, depression, perfectionism, rumination, self criticism, self judging and even resistance...

Hello @SMW83 : I'm really sorry about your distress and the situation you are currently in. I can imagine the anxiety, fear, confusion and other overwhelming emotions. I see you are in the UK and I'm reminded of the Anna Friel character in the current TV drama, Marcello, whose PTSD flashbacks...

I found beginning with an eight week mindfulness meditation course along with listening to Dharma talks but the discipline isn't easy, lots of overwhelming emotions arise that have been ignored through the addiction of anxiety...and facing that through meditation takes commitment....one learns...

My anxiety started before I was five and I know the reasons why. However, in the last five years I've come to realize that anxiety had become a habitual and addictive tool employed to keep me safe. I went with anxiety as a way to scan for danger in the hope that I could fend it off OR to try...

Thanks so so much Ms. Spock! I will go through the links over the next week. My yoga practice after meditation sounds like it gives me a similar benefit to your 'movement' exercises. It helps the energy move through more easily for me. However, I realise that I made a spelling typo in my...

I was looking for threads on mindfulness and meditation on this forum because I find it the single most useful therapy for my CPTSD. So I'm kind of surprised its not used by more people here (maybe it is)? Many of the threads I found are closed as they're old. So I'd like to raise the issue...