Bleeding Heart Therapy

Therapy tip 🩷🩵 Your nervous system loves company

Ditch the solo mission - and start accepting applications for co-regulation buddies. Feeling connected to someone or something outside of yourself is a great form of regulation. 💞🐱🍃

Therapy tip 🩷🩵 The physiological sigh (is super cool)

Picture a four year old trying to explain why they are sad they dropped their ice-cream. Yeah - that double inhale to big exhale (in this situation likely accompanied by sobbing). 🍦🍃

Therapy tip 🩷🩵 Your loved ones are not a stress ball

Go give your support system high-fives after reading this, they deserve it.

Therapy tip 🩷🩵 Give yourself permission to restart

Oh the irony in posting this, after forgetting to post consistently on social media for while. But you know what ? That's okay.

Therapy tip 🩷🩵 Enjoy the micro moments

Our brains like to remember pain to try and prevent us from experiencing it in the future - this means we need to put a bit more work into having our brains remember joy too. 🌸😺

Therapy tip 🩷🩵 Trauma time travels - stay present

I remember when I first learned that I could enjoy myself, regardless of the mood of others around me, a huge shifting point away from the idea that I had a constant responsibility to cater to the moods of others. Stay mad✌️ I'll be chilling.

Therapy tip 🩷🩵 Use the buddy system

Don't you hate it when you force your unsocial self to go to an event and then realize you had fun? That's that collective effervescence reminding your nervous system that humans are socials beings. Don't let capitalism and the stress of the daily grind take that from you 💞

Therapy tip 🩷🩵 Visualize your max stat self

Would be cool if I could visualize myself into becoming a real life druid - but instead I'll try to embody the traits I see within them, an empathetic connection to the universe and all living beings 🦋💚🌿

Therapy tip 🩷🩵 Hit the slow-mo button

This fun fact is brought to by someone who often speaks a mile a minute (I'm sure my anxiety diagnose has no correlation whatsoever). Can confirm I have tested this myself - and it does work!

Therapy tip 🩷🩵 Embrace your inner phoenix

Who doesn't want to be like a cool mythical creature ? Next time you're struggling with the idea of needing to embrace a "new you" picture a phoenix shedding its feathers and rising from the ashes. 🔥🔥

Therapy tip 🩷🩵 Tend to the "holes" in your roof

Sometimes we need and gentle yet firm reminder - if you change nothing, nothing changes. So be honest with yourself, and maybe on the next sunny day take time to mend some mental wounds, and have some tiny go-tos for the rainy days.