Dr. Negar Shekarabi

08/12/2021

What is that one helpful little nugget of wisdom you always remember from your therapist? Share below to help spread the inspiration and help normalize therapy.

07/06/2020

I’m sharing this post from .holistic.psychologist because it’s so beautifully captures the work on processing complex childhood trauma. So much of my work revolves around helping my clients make shifts or deepen awareness of and tolerance for the discomfort these 5 elements create in themselves & their relationships. Go to the original post to read the caption & her excellent illustration of how childhood trauma impacts adult relationships.

06/29/2020

Turning an facing our trauma is how we heal from it. What that “facing towards” looks like for each of us may be different. But as long as we are turned away from our most painful feelings they are chasing us and we are under their control.

06/24/2020

The healing nature of talk therapy is always a sweet surprise 🦋

06/08/2020

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06/04/2020

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06/04/2020

Excited to be on this panel for the Chronicle of Higher Education in June 8th, 11am PST.

Caring for the Entire Campus Community in a Crisis: How can college leaders respond to uncertainty and fear, a sense of loss, and feelings of isolation? What virtual resources and support networks are campuses providing, including to those who are experiencing trauma and grief? Even as people are scattered and institutions face budget cuts, they are continuing to develop creative approaches. Join the discussion and pose your questions to the panel.

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Promoting the mental health and well-being of everyone on campus –students as well as faculty and staff – was a key priority for college leaders even before a global pandemic turned people’s lives upside down. The abrupt dislocation of the campus community has only exacerbated rising levels of...

04/23/2020

It feels very important to critically look at the messaging right now around Self-Care.
The concept of “self-care” in times of stress & distress can be problematic. The narrative of self-care asks the individual (you) to take on the burden and labor yourself of improving your state of stress or distress. It asks of the individual to do more things to improve a situation that was created in the first place, in part, by doing too many things. If the issues underlying the need for self-care are systemic (inequality in resources, gender inequality, racism, etc.) an individualized self-care approach can not alone adequately address the impact.
Increasingly we are seeing a new narrative form of “Community Care.” Community Care can occur when individuals leverage their privilege to help others. In our current response some of us may find that we are able to be more productive while others of us have life circumstances that do not allow us to contribute in our jobs or relationships at the same level.
Community Care allows those of us who can be more productive to do so as a measure of support for our colleagues, friends and family demonstrating that we are all in this together and that true self-care is about letting others pick up the slack when we are in need as we will do for them when we are able.
Read more about what Community Care can look like and ways to begin promoting it: https://www.google.com/amp/s/mashable.com/article/community-care-versus-self-care.amp

11/26/2019

“We are a small, pro-mental-health-­culture company,” Harvey says. “If we don’t know how to do this, no one knows.”

Depression, anxiety, and other conditions go largely undiscussed—at a huge cost for business.

08/28/2019

Great post from .holistic.psychologist Often in therapy I’m speaking to my clients about the internalized (often parental) voice. How we talk to ourselves so often forms from how others spoke to us about ourselves at a young age. Who does your internal voice sound like?

08/21/2019

Often our most painful experiences lead us to powerful paths of healing that change who we are in positive ways. What are positive outcomes you’ve experienced as a result a painful experience?