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Many hills many deaths. *never replace. ☄️

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  Hills I'll die on as a therapist with a neuroscience degree:

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  Being 'regulated' or calm is never the goal, in fact that can be even more damaging trying to force that in situations that need something different. You're meant to be unimaginably sad when you're grieving, you're meant to be so filled with rage when you look at the injustice in the world. You're meant to freeze when everything else is simply too much to hold. Your body knows what's up - and what's up is how to protect the human living in it.

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  You gotta stop 'healing' sometimes. No amount of ceremonies, rituals, modalities and exotic powders marketed to you from far away lands as the 'answer' will ever replace the power of you accessing your autonomy and choice. This is your life. You are living it here, on earth, with your feet on the ground. You get to do what you want with it.

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  For the vast majority, 1 hour a week of therapy is futile. Therapy helps you increase resilience, manage symptoms and reactions to the core problem, and meet yourself on a deeper level. To actually feel safe, you need enough money in your bank account to give you access to healthcare, stable housing and restful sleep. If your basic needs aren't being met first, therapy can only take you so far.

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  Sometimes you need someone to just cry or feel it with you, even your therapist. Cultures all around the world have cried, wailed and lamented with those who are angry or grieving. In the west we've stripped it back to a clinical 'how does that make you feel?'-type question. It's not for every client and situation, but sharing a cry in session often has much more power than remaining neutral does.

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  Behaviour changes at the state level not the thought. If you could think, analyse and cognitively decide your way out of the patterns you've existed in for years, you'd have done so by now. State influences thought, influences state, influences thought. If you want to see long lasting change, you must be working with both top down AND bottom up approaches.

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  We are hurt in relationship and so forth we are healed in relationship. The power of safe, human to human connection is like no other and this journey simply cannot be done in isolation. The human nervous system needs other human nervous systems to survive. The increasing drive for isolation and hyper-individualisation is more sinister than we realise.