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Loneliness – HOW-TO for coping with lonely holidays

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Loneliness: Being alone is not lonelinessLoneliness: Being alone is not lonelinessLoneliness: Being alone has advantages1. You can do what you want2. Being alone makes us aware of who we are3. Make plans4. Strengthen self-confidence5. The eye for everyday things is sharpened and stimulated6. Allow thoughts and face demonsLoneliness: But what distinguishes being alone from loneliness? Loneliness: […]

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Childhood Trauma: Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) – HOW TO

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PMR: What is that?PMR: What is that?PMR: Steps of progressive muscle relaxationPMR: Abdominal BreathingPMR: TechniquePMR: ExamplePMR: Muscle groups Progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) is used to reduce anxiety. The technique was introduced by the American doctor Edmund Jacobson in the 1930s. This technique alternates tension and relaxation of all the body’s important muscle groups. In this

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Childhood trauma: a son’s story of his father’s transformation from a violent criminal to a loving parent

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Aeon features this story about a son honouring where his father’s turbulent life has taken them both. From violent criminal to loving parent, this video chronicles the father’s turbulent life and how he found a path to love through helping others, art and fatherhood. In Violator, the Los Angeles-based filmmaker Edward Robles chronicles the turbulent life

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Childhood trauma reactions: worksheet REST strategy

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The REST strategyThe REST strategyThe REST strategy: RelaxThe REST strategy: EvaluateThe REST strategy: Situational intentThe REST strategy: Take actionThe REST strategy: exercise After having identified self-destructive and problematic behaviours — as well as their costs — there are needed distress tolerance strategies, the first of which is described there: the REST strategy. REST stands for:Relax,Evaluate,Situational

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Childhood trauma: Self-defeating Coping Strategies Worksheet

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The Self-defeating Coping Strategies Worksheet helps you to see the cost of unsuitable, though understandable, coping strategies. When emotional and physical pain feels more intense and occurs more frequently than it does for other people, the ensuing distress comes on more quickly and feels like an overwhelming tidal wave, and it never seems to end.

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Childhood trauma (cPTSD): free ACE test online

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ACE test on childhood traumaACE test on childhood traumaACE test questionsHere are the ten questions that study participants were asked in the ACE test:ACE test scoreACE test other forms of childhood traumaACE test interpretationThe results of the ACE study “ACE” in ACE Test stands for Adverse Childhood Experiences. This was the name of a study

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Childhood trauma: thought-stopping against shame and fear

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Thought-Stopping: stop your inner critic in his tracksThought-Stopping: stop your inner critic in his tracksThought-Stopping: stepsThought-Stopping: daily activitiesThought-Stopping: perfectionism attacksThought-Stopping: fear attacks A constant stream of thoughts, worries, perceptions, and information rushes through our minds like “internal noise.” Occasionally, we must interrupt this noise flow, particularly if it turns into vicious attacks from a toxic

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