Build resilience through body awareness between therapy sessions
How to build resilience through body awareness in between your therapy sessions
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Greg James
- Oct 1, 2023
- 5 min
How your expectations of therapy can influence the outcome.
Clients have an indispensable part to play in their own therapeutic journeys. Some elements of this role are conscious and easy to recognise
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Greg James
- Jun 24, 2023
- 1 min
Boarding School Syndrome: is there cause for concern?
My research on the psychological impact of sending children away to boarding school has been peer reviewed and published in the British...
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Greg James
- May 12, 2023
- 5 min
What can we do to fight the rising tide of anxiety or shut down?
Effective tools to help when you notice stress pulling you from the river of life
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Greg James
- Feb 10, 2023
- 5 min
Somatic Therapy: What happens in a Somatic Experiencing session.
So what is Somatic Experiencing anyway?! I have written several articles both here and for the Counselling Directory and Happiful...
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Greg James
- Jan 5, 2023
- 1 min
How do you define Courage?
In this context, Brene Brown is not talking about telling your story in the sense of a narrative. She is talking about the ability to be...
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Greg James
- Jun 8, 2022
- 5 min
Experiencing Secondary Trauma
Therapists, carers, blue light service first responders, nurses, family members of trauma survivors, doctors, surgeons, teachers, and...
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Greg James
- May 17, 2022
- 1 min
Somatic Experiencing Therapy Explained
Somatic Experiencing therapy is sometimes difficult to explain and so, as you do, I challenged myself to explain it in less than 60 seconds.
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Greg James
- May 3, 2022
- 4 min
What is trauma and what are the symptoms: The Trauma Guide
Have you experienced trauma or PTSD? What is trauma? Our bodies are designed ebb and flow with the stresses and joys of life, our nervous...
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Greg James
- Mar 31, 2022
- 3 min
Oscars 2022, A Trauma-Informed Perspective
The following is conjecture, not knowing the two men involved at all, and is based solely on my experience in working with trauma. This...
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Greg James
- Jan 8, 2022
- 2 min
How to Live with My Body
My brain and heart divorced a decade ago over who was to blame about how big of a mess I have become Eventually, they couldn't be in the...
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Greg James
- Jan 3, 2022
- 2 min
Which Wolf do you Feed?
There are two wolves, and they are always fighting. One is darkness and despair, and the other is light and hope. Which one wins? The...
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Greg James
- Dec 20, 2021
- 6 min
Somatic Therapies: The Body has Something to Say
"Trauma is not what happens to you, but what happens inside of you as a result of what happens to you. It does not have to be a life...
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Greg James
- Dec 20, 2021
- 2 min
Does Therapy Work?
Sometimes it's difficult, over time, to see the small and even big changes that happen in the therapy room. From time to time, it's...
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Greg James
- Jun 22, 2021
- 2 min
You were made for this
"Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our...
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Greg James
- Jun 18, 2021
- 1 min
The Psychological Impact of Boarding School
Update: Since writing my previous boarding school blog post, a number of people have been in touch to access therapy for issues relating...
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Greg James
- Mar 26, 2021
- 3 min
A Safe Place to Land
As a crisis volunteer for SHOUT and Bath Mind, I worked with a lot of people who were thinking about or imminently planning suicide and...
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Greg James
- Jan 30, 2021
- 2 min
Who are we trying to comfort?
Were you ever told to 'be brave' or not to cry? It's a very common thing for parents to say to children and it's most often not said...
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Greg James
- Jan 6, 2021
- 2 min
Alone
Lockdown is hard for us all in different ways. It curbs our freedoms, we can go stir crazy with the kids in the house 24/7 while also...
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Greg James
- Nov 13, 2020
- 5 min
Anxiety and the Body
Have you ever wondered what anxiety actually is and what purpose it serves? Anxiety is the body's natural response to stress - most...
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