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12 tips to choose a counsellor and make the most of your sessions
Emma Faulkner 06/04/2025 Emma Faulkner 06/04/2025

12 tips to choose a counsellor and make the most of your sessions

Choosing a counsellor can be a daunting process, click through for 12 tips for choosing a counsellor and making the most of your sessions

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Toxic Positivity: why we need to stop gaslighting ourselves
Emma Faulkner 06/04/2025 Emma Faulkner 06/04/2025

Toxic Positivity: why we need to stop gaslighting ourselves

What is toxic positivity? And why is it a bad thing?

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5 ways to manage morning anxiety
Emma Faulkner 06/04/2025 Emma Faulkner 06/04/2025

5 ways to manage morning anxiety

Do you experience morning anxiety? Click through to find 5 ways to help manage your symptoms

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View fullsize "Your best is what you can do without harming your mental or physical health. Not what you can accomplish when you disregard it." - @suegainz 

How did this quote land with you? What might it feel like, to slow down when you can feel your b
View fullsize I can't recommend this book highly enough - for parenting at any stage, whether your first baby is yet to be born, or your children are fully grown up, there is wisdom to be found in this book.

Eli writes in a way that makes your humanness feel OK,
View fullsize Follow @gottmaninstitute for more insight into the relationship research conducted by the Gottman Drs ❤️

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View fullsize "True belonging doesn't require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are" - Brené Brown

Shame and vulnerability researcher @brenebrown highlights the impossibility of truly belonging, if you are shapshifting to f
View fullsize Do you ever find yourself wanting to do the inner work for someone else? Knowing that if only they'd change / gain awareness / heal, things would be better?

We can't do the inner work for other people, the only person you can do the inner work for,
View fullsize The Good Enough Mother (caregiver) is a concept originally identified by psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott - more recently backed up with research from child development researcher, Dr Dan Siegel.

Although Winnicott originally referred to the "mot
View fullsize "Once you start approaching your body with curiosity rather than fear, everything shifts" -Bessel Van Der Kolk

Did you know, that all of our emotions begin first as physical sensations? Many of us learn to ignore, suppress or minimise thes
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View fullsize This too shall pass. Like the seasons changing, we too go through seasons in life. Sometimes an experience we have can seem static, and permenant - as though the *feeling* will remain the same forever. The reality is, everything adjusts and changes o
View fullsize "Self-care is how you take your power back" - Lalah Delia ❤️

Genuinely, unapologetically attuning to the self-care that *you* need, as the unique individual that you are, is how you take your power back.

Choosing to look after yourself, w
View fullsize It's OK to set boundaries, even if other people are disappointed ❤️

You are allowed to set boundaries - other people are allowed to feel disappointed by this, both of these things can co-exist.

When you start to recognise the boundaries you need to
View fullsize Do you know the difference between self-care and aftercare?

#selfcarenotaftercare #selfcare #lookafteryourself #lookafteryourselffirst #selfcarevsaftercare #counsellinguk #counsellingashford #counsellingkent #thingstherapistssay #emmafaulknercounsel
View fullsize "Talk to yourself like someone you love" - Brené Brown ❤️

Talk to yourself like someone you love - and see what changes ❤️

#brenebrown #brenebrownquotes #bekindtoyourself #choosekindness #therapyquotes #emmafaulknercounselling
View fullsize Healing doesn't erase the past, it changes your relationship with it ❤️

#thingstherpistssay #healingjourney #selfacceptance #therapyuk #counsellingashford #emmafaulknercounselling
View fullsize When we minimise, we suppress the feelings that naturally surface for us, in favour of an alternative narrative that we (and others) have written for ourselves. This messaging usually comes from a "young" part within us, and there's typical
View fullsize "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are" - Anaïs Nin

We also *experience* things as we are. I often see this quote equated to mindset, but one of the beautiful things about being human, is that the sum of our lived exp
View fullsize Not all problems can be solved with logic ❤️

#feelthefeelings #personaldevelopmentuk #counsellinguk #thingstherpistssay #thingscounsellorssay #mytherapistsaid #therapyquotes #emmafaulknercounselling
View fullsize Gaslighting is an incredibly confusing and disorienting experience to have - it fills you with uncertainty and can have lasting consequences.

I work with survivors of gaslighting - a big part of gaslighting recovery is learning to truly reconnect wi
View fullsize “Some things are difficult, if not impossible, to put into words. That's why in breath work we focus on feelings, we focus on the heart” - Dan Brulé (Just Breathe)

Breathwork sessions present the opportunity to gently get to know
View fullsize It's OK to need rest when other people would keep going ❤️ 

Your capacity will be different to the capacity of other people. It may even be different day to day. And that's OK. 

Honouring your need to rest is an important part of self-care. You don

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