How to regulate your nervous system
I am often asked by clients how to manage when feelings become overwhelming. There are many ways to calm your nervous system and come...
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Fe Robinson
May 6, 20234 min read
Coping with big feelings
I was asked recently for some tips about coping when your feelings feel too big to manage. Thankfully, there are so many ways to...
Fe Robinson
Mar 24, 20232 min read
Changing the way you perceive an experience to change your response
I’ve been reminded several times in recent weeks of the power of working with the structure of the way we ‘hold’ experiences, rather than...
Fe Robinson
Jan 5, 20232 min read
A conversation about how you feel is not supposed to end in an argument
“A conversation about how you feel is not supposed to end in an argument” The Mind Journal I’ve been reflecting recently on themes of...
Fe Robinson
Sep 9, 20222 min read
The freedom of safety
"We all need freedom and security, which is why when the world doesn’t feel safe, we often don’t feel as free." Esther Perel At first...
Fe Robinson
Aug 3, 20222 min read
Exploring your felt experience
Our relationship with our self is the most important one we work on in psychotherapy, given our self-relations inform all of our...
Fe Robinson
Jul 22, 20222 min read
We feel more than one thing at once
I wanted to reflect today on the nature of feeling, which is understandably a recurrent and important theme in therapeutic work. It’s a...
Fe Robinson
Jul 22, 20223 min read
Clearing clogged energy for well-being
I've been writing recently about regulating your nervous system to be grounded and calm to give yourself the flexibility to feel and...
Fe Robinson
Jul 9, 20222 min read
Calming your nervous system
One of the key jobs of therapeutic work is to help clients to be able to calm their nervous system so that their default way of being...
Fe Robinson
May 6, 20222 min read
Full to overflowing, or full beyond capacity?
When a client tells me or shows me they are overwhelmed, what they are describing is an intense experience. For them, moving past the...
Fe Robinson
Mar 25, 20222 min read
Distress is not always about what IS happening...
It seems natural to be distressed when something awful has happened. A death. A traffic accident. Abuse. Faced with situations like...
Fe Robinson
Jan 21, 20222 min read
Are you suppressing your anger?
Anger is an unpopular emotion, and frankly it gets quite a bad press. The caricature of an angry person is red faced, steam coming out...
Fe Robinson
Nov 13, 20212 min read
The ABCD of Encountering Emotions
Often, what brings clients into therapy is a reticence to experience their feelings. This can show up in all sorts of ways, in low mood...
Fe Robinson
Nov 5, 20212 min read
Repression, supression, expression and awareness
The opposite of repression and suppression is not expression, its awareness. I heard Andrew Seubert make this excellent observation in a...
Fe Robinson
Oct 15, 20211 min read
Having the courage to feel
I was listening to Andrew Seubert recently talking about The Courage To Feel. I liked the way he described feelings, as embodied...
Fe Robinson
Sep 5, 20211 min read
Is guilt a bad thing?
Sometimes clients come into therapy wanting to be absolved of guilt when they have done something they regret. Guilt is painful, and this...
Fe Robinson
Jul 23, 20211 min read
Having the strength to feel your emotions
One of the central themes of therapeutic work is how client’s experience their feelings. For some, there is overwhelm. For others, a...
Fe Robinson
Jun 26, 20211 min read
Letting emotions and thoughts flow
I often hear people saying they cope with emotions and thoughts by avoiding them. Sometimes, it may feel the only option available. ...
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