27th February 2017
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Even though I ‘teach’ acceptance as a skill, it’s something that I have sometimes struggled with myself; to ‘accept’ some of life’s events. When I hear about some of the things that my clients have been through, are going through and might continue to face, I’m sometimes amazed at how they keep […]
9th July 2016
by Katy Woolf In the last blog, we saw that grief is not an easy process to pass through, and many obstacles can come up along the way which can make this more difficult. Grief is a normal and expected response to loss, and we can think of it a bit like a wound healing. This takes time, and might […]
1st July 2016
by Katy Woolf Loss is a universal experience, and yet it is among one of life’s most challenging and painful experiences. When we lose someone we love, we are faced not only with the pain of the loss itself, but also the struggle of understanding and making sense of our grief reaction and the impact of the loss on our […]
24th May 2016
OK, so now we have some idea as to why our past feels like our present, but what do we do about it?! When experiencing some of the effects of trauma such as intense fear, anger, nightmares, and flashbacks, it can be difficult to stay focussed on the present, what is going on around us. Our thinking goes ‘off line’ […]
15th May 2016
Why do I sometimes feel like I’m six years old again when I’m scared? Why am I still so distressed by something that happened years ago? These are questions I often get asked in my practice. Well, research has indicated that this is due to the way our brains function and how the memories from the past are stored. To […]
18th March 2016
By Katy Woolf In part 1 of the blog, we talked about what we mean by the ‘compassionate mind’ and why we might struggle with this at times. Whilst we all have a compassionate mind, we can lose touch with this, perhaps allowing it to shrink away amongst the chatter of our threat-focused mind. But we can begin to turn […]
