Upside Psychology

08/02/2026

If you’re an overthinker like me, this is for you… 🤣

03/02/2026

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02/02/2026

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27/01/2026

Walking is the single most natural and simple way to regulate your nervous system. If you can, do it outside. The natural bilateral eye movement from walking will help you process stress, difficult situations, and will help you process emotional memories.

When stressful things happen to us, we need to move so our brain can process the emotions. When we sit still after stress for long periods of time, we ruminate. Rumination is playing a situation in our mind over and over again. We do this because the emotional memory is trying to be processed, but with the body in a state of stillness, it can’t happen.

Chronic rumination leads to depression.

It’s no coincidence that as we’ve been pulled into sedentary lifestyles, depression has increased. Our ancestors walked all the time. Throughout the day. Every day. “Walk it off,” is not just a saying, it’s a truth.

Add walking into your daily life whenever you can. Even small bursts of walking help.

Some ideas:

1. A simple walk around your block

2. Drive to a park or a street with shops and walk it (explore new parks or hikes you haven’t been on before)

3. Park father away every time you have a chance

4. If weather is bad, walk indoor malls or shopping centers

5. Find a walking buddy to hold you accountable

6. Ask to do therapy or coaching on the phone so you can walk

7. Get a small treadmill and a stand for your laptop so you can work and walk

Without enough natural movement and light, humans will inevitably end up depressed

19/01/2026

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19/01/2026

Irritation usually feels like it comes out of nowhere. Suddenly people, sounds, and situations annoy you and you’re not even sure why. You’re more on edge and sometimes just want to be completely alone. This is your nervous system going up (or down) the polyvagal ladder. It’s early signs of fight or flight activation. As soon as you feel it, walk. If you can’t get outside walk around your living room or kitchen. It will help work the sympathic energy out of your body and help you regulate. Just 10 minutes later, you’ll notice less irritation

29/11/2025

05/11/2025

Teach your kids early that their worth isn’t something to be earned — it’s something to be remembered. That they don’t need to twist themselves into shapes to be liked, or silence parts of who they are just to fit in. That the right people will hold them as they are — and the wrong ones will fall away.

Because the world will try to convince them that approval is the prize — that being liked means belonging. But if you have to trade pieces of yourself to keep your place, that isn’t belonging — it’s performance.

The truth is, peace doesn’t come from being accepted by everyone. It comes from liking who you are when you stay true — even when others don’t understand.

So show them how to take that invisible “I want you to like me” sticker off their forehead and place it on the mirror — where it belongs. As a reminder that the person whose approval matters most is the one looking back.

Because when they’re anchored in that kind of self-respect, they won’t mistake acceptance for love, or trade connection for approval. And when they learn to live from that place, their happiness won’t hinge on being liked, and their peace won’t depend on anyone else’s applause…

It will come from knowing they were already enough. ❤️

Quote Credit: Susan Jeffers ❣️

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