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Psychological Therapy and Personal Development Clinic in Harley street

Joanna Konstantopoulou
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Psychological Therapy and Personal Development Clinic in Harley street

Joanna Konstantopoulou
Registered Psychologist - RECBT Dip.

13/11/2025

Your body isn't broken. Every day it's...

✨ Recalibrating your nervous system
✨ Running repair processes while you sleep
✨ Adapting to new challenges
✨ Finding ways to function despite limitations
✨ Carrying you through stress that would challenge any system

When you handle another flare → that's resilience

When you adapt to energy crashes → that's wisdom

When you keep going despite symptoms → that's strength

Your body isn't failing you. It's doing everything it can with what it has.And that's extraordinary.

💬 Ready to appreciate your body's remarkable adaptability? DM EMPOWER.

10/11/2025

What if you stopped waiting to get "better"?

Not because hope is pointless, but because waiting for better keeps you in a holding pattern.

When getting well becomes the prerequisite for living, you postpone your entire existence.

But what if this is real life? What if you deserve dreams and plans and meaning exactly as you are right now?

Maybe better isn't a destination - it's a way of being present with what is.

💬 Ready to stop waiting and start living? DM EMPOWER.

07/11/2025

"Just listen to your body." Sounds simple, right?

But when chronic illness has been scrambling your signals for months or years, interpretation becomes incredibly complex.

Is this fatigue from overdoing it or the start of a flare?
Is this pain something to rest through or move through?
Is this anxiety about symptoms or a symptom itself?

Your nervous system has been on high alert so long that every sensation gets filtered through fear and past experiences.

"Listening to your body" isn't reading a clear manual - it's learning a language that keeps changing dialects.

💬 If you're struggling to decode what your body is telling you, DM EMPOWER.

05/11/2025

When you live with chronic illness, you will experience times where you feel like you will "disappoint" people.

Cancel plans. Decline invitations. Say no to requests.

The question isn't so much whether this will happen - it's how you'll get through it emotionally.

But remember: Disappointment is data, not disaster.

It shows you who can handle your reality and who can't. Your boundaries aren't punishments - they're preservation.

💬 If guilt about disappointing others is controlling your choices, DM EMPOWER.

03/11/2025

Been told to "pace yourself" but still stuck in boom-bust cycles?

You might be pacing wrong.

Most people think pacing means:
👉Push until you crash, then rest
👉Use good days to catch up on everything
👉Rest only when symptoms force you to

Real pacing means:
✅ Staying consistently below your limits
✅ Resting before you need to
✅ Using only 70% of available energy, even on good days

The goal isn't to gradually increase capacity - it's to maintain what you can do sustainably.

💬 If you're struggling with boom-bust cycles despite trying to pace, DM EMPOWER.

30/10/2025

Does it feel like honesty about chronic illness often costs more than it's worth?

After enough practice saying "I'm fine" to others, it can often feel easily to start believing it yourself.

But your reality deserves acknowledgment - especially from you.

💬 If you've lost touch with your own experience through minimising symptoms, DM EMPOWER.

27/10/2025

"You're so inspirational!" Sounds supportive, right?

But it can also easily create this invisible pressure that turns your pain into lessons for others.

To be strong when you're barely surviving.
To find silver linings in suffering.
To smile through symptoms.

But your illness doesn't exist to inspire anyone.

Your worth isn't tied to how gracefully you handle what you've been given.

You're allowed to be human instead of inspirational.

💬 If inspiration pressure is weighing you down, DM EMPOWER.

24/10/2025

That anger you're not processing about medical gaslighting?
👉 It might be showing up as increased pain.

That grief you haven't felt about losing your old life?
👉 It could be manifesting as stubborn fatigue.

Your immune system and emotions are deeply connected. Suppressed feelings often convert into inflammatory responses.

Processing emotions isn't just psychological work - it's a physiological intervention that can actually reduce symptom severity.

💬 Ready to explore the emotion-inflammation connection? DM EMPOWER.

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22/10/2025

Chronic illness isn't a blessing, but it does develop capacities most people never get to cultivate...

🤍 Exquisite body awareness
🤍 A finely tuned filter for draining relationships
🤍 Deep empathy for others who struggle
🤍 Ability to find joy in smaller moments
🤍 Wisdom about what actually matters
🤍 Superpower-level boundary setting

The person you're becoming has strengths your pre-illness self never needed to develop.

And those strengths will serve you for life.

💬 Ready to build on the growth you've gained through struggle? DM EMPOWER.

20/10/2025

Getting a diagnosis after years of "everything looks normal" brings weird relief.

Finally, validation.
Your symptoms have a name.
You weren't imagining things.

But relief gets complicated when you start Googling prognosis and worst-case scenarios.

The same label that validates your experience creates new fears about your future.

That emotional complexity is completely normal.

💬 If you're processing the mixed feelings that come with diagnosis, DM EMPOWER.

16/10/2025

Signs your tracking has become counterproductive...

👉 You check in with your body multiple times per hour

👉 You feel anxious when you can't record a symptom immediately

👉 You notice problems you wouldn't have paid attention to before tracking

👉 Your mood correlates directly with your symptom scores

👉 You feel worse on days when symptoms are "good" but not perfect

The result? Instead of feeling better, you feel more anxious. More aware of problems. More convinced something's wrong.

This is because excessive tracking trains your brain to be hypervigilant about internal sensations.

The more you monitor, the more symptoms you notice.

But.. your body doesn't need constant surveillance to heal 💬 If tracking has become anxiety-provoking rather than helpful, DM EMPOWER.

13/10/2025

Your nervous system might be the missing piece in your symptom management puzzle.

When chronic illness keeps you stuck in fight-or-flight mode:
Inflammation stays elevated
❌Pain perception increases
❌Sleep quality decreases
❌Digestive issues worsen

But you can train your nervous system to be more flexible through specific techniques that activate your vagus nerve and shift you into "rest and digest" mode.

This isn't just about feeling calm - it's about changing the neural signals that affect your actual symptoms.

💬 Want to learn nervous system regulation techniques for chronic illness? DM EMPOWER.

Address

10 Harley Street
London
W1G9PF

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 8pm
Tuesday	9am - 8pm
Wednesday	9am - 8pm
Thursday	9am - 8pm
Friday	9am - 8pm

Telephone

+442081443041

Website

http://www.healthpsychologyclinic.co.uk/

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