Rising Sunflower Art Therapy

Trauma is a bit of a buzz word, often overused so much so that everything becomes traumatic; but what does trauma actually mean or relate to?

◇Trauma is the emotional shock that someone experiences following an event that involves actual or perceived threat to one’s physical or mental wellbeing. 

◇Trauma can also occur in response to witnessing or hearing about a similarly terrible event involving someone else.

◇For the event to be traumatic the person’s response must involve intense fear, helplessness, or horror and must overwhelm the normal coping mechanisms. 

The shock from experiencing a traumatic event can have a physiological as well as a psychological impact.

Physiological meaning 'the body's physical mechanisms that respond when an injury takes place.'

Psychological meaning a mental response to an injury

 

What are some of the benefits of Therapy?

Firstly, everything you tell your Therapist is confidential and Therapist's are non-judgmental

•Therapy can help you to achieve your goals

•Therapy can encourage you to form better interpersonal relationships and connections

•Therapy can encourage you to create and maintain coping skills

•Therapy can help you to set healthy boundaries

•Therapy can allow you to find balance in life and quiet the mind

•Therapy can provide trauma resolution

•Therapy can help rewire thought process

Mental health awareness week 10th-16th May 2021

This week has highlighted mental health at what feels like a turning point following the last 12+ months and the importance of showing empathy and understanding to not only ourselves but towards each other.

Theres always been a stigma around mental health but it becomes less daunting the more we talk! You don't have to have had the same experience as someone but empathy is the first step in beginning to understand someone's actions, reactions and responses. To understand mental health is to understand the person 🙌🏾 being in lockdowns for the past year has allowed people to become more reflective and able to share personal and emotional parts of themselves. Various people have used gardening and the outdoors to take time for themselves. As lockdown eases and the world begins to open let's remember to check in with each other and keep talking all things mental health and wellbeing!