Teens at Risk: Social Media and Eating Disorders
Regulating Angst
To cope with anxiety and overwhelming experiences, many people develop distracting strategies which can lead to dysfunctional habitual patterns. It is often when poor behavioural coping becomes symptomatic that people come into therapy.
Back in the saddle: emotional resilience
Resilience: The ability to overcome great obstacles and bounce back. Learning to read your interoceptive (or sensory) input, down-regulating the activated states, after enough practice eventually result in breaking the habitual patterns of disconnection and development of new neurological connections.
Online Therapy: are you tuned in?
A spontaneous attunement of the nervous system to the facial expression, bodily gestures and vocal intonation – NEUROCEPTION. This automatic response to social cues happens in milliseconds during a face-to-face interaction. In virtual exchange, this would require a little more of a conscious effort, making the therapeutic work less effortless and intuitive.
Stress: what is it? Neurobiology of our daily survival.
If the stress response is unresolved and a residual stress accumulates, modifying the baseline of autonomic activity – adaptive potential capacity. As a result, one is left within a diminished reserve for internal regulation in between natural states of emergency and ongoing internal homeostasis. The dynamic equilibrium is suppressed, and the above symptoms are exacerbated in a vicious cycle of heightened reactivity to stress and uncertainty.