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Expressive writing for emotional health: a course to help you feel better quickly
An expressive writing course to help you feel better and master your emotions.
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Sound Bath by Sara Auster
I’m really enjoying this audiobook about Sound Baths by Sara Auster. She blends sound baths with her yoga practice and gives some really interesting details about the origins of sound healing and yoga. Did you know that yoga is not just about postures and breathing? One of the ‘limbs’ of yoga is ‘Nada Yoga’ which […]
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Listen to your heart
This article reports on research from Sarah Garfinkel and Hugo Critchley into how Interoception could be a key part of helping us to understand our emotions better. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/sarah-garfinkel-interoception
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Link between anxiety and the gut
A study published in Nature – link below – showed a decrease in anxiety symptoms in the young participants who took a prebiotic supplement versus those who did not. Interesting evidence for the link between our microbiome and wellbeing. https://rdcu.be/cjI1V
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The Morning Pages by Julia Cameron
The’Morning Pages’ have been my refuge, my place to cry, my thought organiser, my decision helper, and my main method of offloading and processing how I feel for nearly 18 years now. Over the past year I have adapted them into nightly pages instead. This seems to also stop me from browsing on my phone […]
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Where to find a therapist in the UK
In my book ‘Do I Need to See a Therapist?!’ I have put together a list of all the therapy directories I could find that offer a place to search for counsellors and psychotherapists. I plan to link to this information on here once the book has been published but for now these are the […]
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Differences in pupil dilation between people with PTSD and those without
neurosciencenews.com/eye-trauma-mark-16659/ A study carried out jointly between Cardiff and Swansea University has found that people who have suffered PTSD show different pupil dilation and constriction patterns. The study looked both at constriction in response to light changes, but also enhanced pupil dilation in response to both exciting-positive and traumatic-negative imagery, and perceiving both as equally […]
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Rethinking the role of the body in emotions
www.newscientist.com/article/mg24632881-300-consciousness-isnt-just-the-brain-the-body-shapes-your-sense-of-self/ This article in the New Scientist pulls together some exciting findings from researchers studying the role of our bodies, and particularly our hearts, in our emotional lives. HEP looks to be an area of interest and I wonder how this links in with HRV? The part that stood out for me with the HEP […]
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How to find a therapist
So how do you find a therapist, and how do you find the right one for you? In the UK, the first places to look would be the therapist directories held by the main registration and accreditation bodies, for example the BABCP, BPS, UKCP and NCS. Outside of these bodies there are directories such as […]
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Expressive writing
Writing has always been my way of trying to process and understand events and experiences, and to write out ideas, plans, wishes and hypotheses for the time and space I have yet to move through in life’s journey. I use a technique called ‘The Morning Pages’ as my daily brain dump – except I do […]
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Donna Maria Bottomley 