Roots Therapy & Licensed Counselling

20/01/2024

Mental health > career success for women 🥰

PARIS, Jan 20 — What are the priorities of Generation Z women? Personal development, and more specifically well-being, seem to be at the heart of their aspirations, far ahead of...

01/03/2023

10 Behaviors That Can Push People Away
#10: Perpetually playing the victim

Do you recognize any of those behaviors from your own relationships?

04/11/2022

5 words for more happiness 🤗

An easy way to connect with yourself.

08/09/2022

WHY are employees NOT more open about mental health in the workplace? 🫣

• Fear & hesitancy (even if offered as employee benefit)
• Employer stigma (hushed; prejudice)
• Internal (among co-workers) stigma

“Since knowledge about how the brain works remains low, we still have assumptions about mental health, and these show up more significantly at work.” ~Paula Allen

What can be done?
• Resources & communication regarding mental health
• Flexibility to address & engage
• Workplace mental health training

31/07/2022

Don't Be Afraid to Ride the Wave of Anxiety

Manage your anxiety rather than running away from it. 😩
- Anxiety can be overwhelming and exhausting whether the threat is real or not.
- Instead of denying anxious thoughts & feelings, try to sit with them and identify how they are showing up in your body.
- Physical activity & journaling can be valuable tools in processing and letting go of anxiety.

Speak to yourself or to a good friend: 🤗
- How are you feeling?
- What are you feeling?
- Where are you feeling it in your body?
- How intense is this feeling on a scale of 1-10?
- What can you do right now to manage these strong feelings?

This too shall pass. Like an ocean wave, these strong feelings will pass through you. 🌊

❤️🌳

Source: PyschologyToday

30/07/2022

Childhood Invalidation Can Affect Adult Well-Being! 👧💔👩

- Emotional invalidation in childhood is linked to borderline personality disorder and pathological narcissism.
- Childhood invalidation can lead to later feelings of insecurity, deep depression, and an unstable sense of self-identity.
- Feeling unheard or unseen in childhood can lead to avoiding emotional intimacy or vulnerability in adulthood.

How the cycle repeats: 😞🔁
- Deep feelings of emptiness and feeling lonely, even when in a relationship
- Feeling unheard, unseen, or misunderstood
- Chronic feelings of guilt, shame, depression, or anxiety
- Miscommunication or a severing of communication (keeping communication shallow or superficial)
- Avoiding emotional intimacy or vulnerability
- Selfish or self-serving behaviors that may affect the other person
- Inability to relate, empathize, or comfort the other person

It’s important to know that healing from early emotional neglect and invalidation is possible. Emotional awareness is critical in helping a person overcome feelings of invalidation and to begin understanding how to validate their own lived experiences. ❤️‍🩹🥰

Because we can’t be expected to know what we were never taught, learning how to identify feelings and needs can be a slow process that requires dedication, the practicing of self-love, and reaching out to a therapist who can help in healing relational trauma.

❤️🌳

Source: PsychologyToday

25/07/2022

Happy international self care day every July 24th! 🤗

Admin: uggh out post didn’t go out on July 24th. But it’s ok ☺️

25/07/2022

Reasons for HOPE for those with depression ❤️

Feeling hopeless is a symptom of depression, but people suffering can feel hopeful on being successfully treated. 😔➡️😊

A holistic treatment that combines medication, therapy & mind–body practices can be life-saving & life-enhancing. ☘️

Mental wellness education, a roadmap for the treatment process & reassurance are key components to a successful outcome. 💪

26/06/2021

Covid-19 & burnout

How can we overcome it?

06/06/2021

Doing this increase your risk of dementia 😩

Plus, tips for boosting your brain health.

01/06/2021

Get up earlier for better mental health! 🌞

NEW YORK, June 1 ― Waking up an hour earlier than usual could reduce some people's risk of depression by 23 per cent, according to an American study. The early bird gets the worm. This saying may very well also apply to mental health. Waking up an hour earlier could reduce the risk of depression.....

31/05/2021

Destigmatising mental health

It was January 26, 2018 when Raven Saunders hit rock bottom.