Keleigh Anderson at Bayridge Counselling Centres
845 Harrington Court & 327 Scott St. in St. Catharines L7R4M2 Burlington, ON, Canada

Sometimes being being positive is just too hard. Neutralizing or softening the thought is so much easier .... & effective.

READ THAT AGAIN. Therapy isn’t only for broken people, it’s for EVERYONE. It’s a gift you give to yourself. Therapy will cause you to reflect on your life and y...our values. It will give you greater self awareness plus the tools to make meaningful changes in your life. Think about how complex the human mind is and how intricate our relationships with each other are. You don’t need to have a terribly traumatic past or life altering issues to go to therapy. Everyone, including you and me, is a work in progress. Therapy helps you make that progress faster. Therapy can look a number of different ways. It can mean laying on a couch for an hour and diving into your past. Or it could be using an app like BetterHelp or Talkspace to get encouragement right on your phone. It might mean getting intentional about healing yourself by reading books, taking courses, or joining online communities. I’m currently working with a therapist on healing past trauma, regulating my nervous system, and defining and empowering myself to become the whole woman I want to be in this next chapter of my life. I am also about to try a plant-based medicinal guided therapy experience with my husband next week. I’ll keep you posted on that! The greatest gift you can choose to give yourself is the gift of understanding yourself better. By understanding yourself better, you can become a better friend, spouse, daughter, son, sister, brother, mother, father, partner, and supporter of yourself.

sounds so easy

There are no rules

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Today might bring up a lot for each of us, emotionally. This is a practice I engage in every day (sometimes multiple times a day.) You can literally feel the bo...dy calm. The heart rate slow down. You can feel the mind relax, almost as if it’s taking a deep sigh. It’s a powerful tool that allows us to fully process our emotions + clear our energy. Today, remember everything you feel is valid. Remember, your needs matter. Remember to practice self care #selfhealers

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Trauma never goes away, but through self-advocacy (like showing up for yourself and doing the work) and really good care (like a good therapist, community, or s...upport group), it can become a small part of our life instead of constantly taking center stage. . . . This doodle is a version of a sketch that popped up in my margin notes as I read the book Naming the Shadows (1994) a few years ago in graduate school. In that book, authors Susan L. Roth and Ronald Batson describe how, through good trauma therapy, past trauma is able to take up less space within one’s self, and the impact of trauma is minimized. As this happens, more energy and internal resources are available for experiencing meaningful social connections, self-respect that fuels good self-care, and the positive feelings that come from less trauma-symptom intrusion, healthy relationships, and good self-care. . . . I want to point out that like most resources on single-event or past-tense complex trauma, this is, at best, only partially applicable for understanding trauma that is systemic and ongoing, like that experienced by people in marginalized bodies. Trauma recovery for these populations falls on ALL OF US. Collectively, we are responsible for ending the ongoing trauma of oppression and violence against marginalized bodies, in order that healing can begin. . . . Get a printable handout/poster of this image via the link in my profile. Image description for screen readers in comments. . . . . #therapyworks #therapistsofinstagram #ptsdawareness #traumarecovery