Wyatt Comprehensive Wellness

Some days we all need the reminder and the permission to take care of ourselves. As Michelle McNamara used to say, “It’s chaos. Be kind.”

Square breathing can calm the nervous system. It’s great for relieving stress, anger, and anxiety (to name only a few!)

Guide your gaze along the lines of the square (start top left and move clockwise) as you breathe in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4.

Just like we need sleep, we need time to be at rest. Make taking a break - from work, from social media, from noise - a priority.

When we react emotionally to an event or person, it inevitably comes from something deeper within us.

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We are complex people in complex situations capable of coexisting emotions even when they are opposites. Like two sides of the same coin!

One of my favourite visuals based on model of grief.

At first, grief is so overwhelming there is little room left. But, when we give it space and acknowledge its significance, we expand our capacity for other things. In that way, grief is much like love.

Safety (physical and emotional) is vital.
Our bodies and brains have an intuitive need to keep us safe. Now that the risk of being eaten by a wooly mammoth is lower, the same instinct can get in our way trying new things or growing in new ways.

I love this quote by because it allows us to question, “Am I reacting out of fear (but there is no danger)? What am I missing because of that?”

I go to counselling too. I know the benefit of collaborating with a trained therapist to bring growth and balance to my life. Everyone has things they want to address and work through. Let’s do it together.

What an amazing statement about anger. Anger is not wrong - it is a sign from ourselves saying that something is not okay. We deserve to acknowledge what anger is trying to tell us.

We often feel like a burden when we are going through difficult times. The truth is, we are carrying that burden. The great thing about counselling is that you don’t have to carry the burden alone.

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