Meditation is often recommended as a strategy for dealing with painfull and distressing thoughts. It doesn’t help everyone all the time and may intensity certain thoughts. Guided imagery offers a useful alternative. The visual approach to relaxation helps you create a mental happy place by creating pleasant scenes in your mind. Adding vivid specific sensory
Listening to music can provide a temporary escape fron painful and overwhelming feelings and identify painfull underlying feelings. By turning your focus to lyrics and rhythm you can focus on something other than distress. It could help you regulate and process upsetting emotions and get in touch with how you feel. Music can also help
Talking to a friend or family member can distract you from your urges. Emotional support can have a lot of benefits when you feel like self harming. You will also feel less alone and isolated with your issues and self harming behaviour. Start by sharing with just one person, someone you can trust and will
Try the following techniques when painful or difficult emotions threaten to overwhelm you 1- identify your emotions and what self harm helps you achieve. Getting a clearer idea of emotions behind impulse can lead to better ways of coping Feeling angry physical activity could help burn off those intense emotions. Feeling lonely isolated. Try connecting
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Finding ways of coping with difficult feelings can help suppress the urges that lead to self harn and help in the recovery process the next several blogs will look at six strategies aimed to distract from self harm
Use activites such as art, drama poetry and writing to make you feel more in touch with your emotions. Improve how you communicate with other people. Make you feel less strong emotions or feel better about yourself. It encourages you to express emotions and explore your problems. It is useful for people who have difficulty
Can’t wait for my little get together new year. A stepping stone to help me manage my anxiety. To me Christmas and New year has always been a time of family and not getting wasted, although I will have a few small gins. Can’t wait to see kids faces our lizzy and lily who are
A photograper has been in touch with me. She is studying photography at Manchester University. The photography project is about yorkshire and the working classes. I am gonna be one of her subjects. She can’t wait to meet and for us as creatives bounce ideas off each other Yorkshire has a legacy of great poets,
Evening moon children my next book project is well on Its way. Life, Heart and Soul, i have emailed synopsis for back of book, introduction and authors note for end of the book. It has the instructions that all prose and other introductions from former books be removed. They can order poems the way they
Hi moon children just a short blog about my plans for new year and getting back to me. Having anxiety and particularly in social situations this is harder than it seems so start off small with those closest to me Need to get out my comfort zone and try and get some of my sociability