The links are weird, if you don’t tap on the play button right away, the page defaults to asking for my email address *again* to be on a waitlist. It kind of feels like this service is more focused on getting my email for marketing purposes and not actually showing the videos.
pamela weymouth, Social Work, Mill Valley, CA, USAsays
I am struggling with PTSD and the fear resulting. What helps is exercise, guided meditation and the support of friends and community! I look forward to learning more tools to bring back to the Rare Mamas i work with!
Thanks Tara! What have helped me is definetly to breath and be aware of how fear feels inside my body and to watch my thoughts as clouds moving in the sky.
As you mentioned Tara, facing the fear. Letting the fear stay in the presence of a therapeutic and/or a safe environment, validating the fear and at the same time acknowledge that sometimes the fear is not as big as we think. Having some key words or a phrase that we can repeat to ourselves when we feel the fear, that help us know that although it is real that we feel the fear; we are here, well and breathing.
Alcohol helps me face fear in social situations; a silent mantra in work situations; the inhale and deep exhale of breath when faced with anxious thoughts when alone; reminding myself that I am doing everything/the best I can when facing the fear of financial difficulty/insecurity. Remembering that fear stands for false expectations appearing real and not to (excessively) worry about things that might not (and usually don’t) happen.
My mentoring work involves listening deeply to their fears and stories both personally and in their work. I find they experience a sense of safety which enables them to access their own wisdom and intuition which supports them to be gentler and more present to their fears and their insights.
Lisa Van Buskirk, Psychotherapy, Santa Cruz, CA, USAsays
I find with both my clients and myself, that when we have an understanding of our basic goodness, and can distinguish that from the shame and fears of traumatic identification, the heart can breath and open again. So by gaining a knowing of our inherent worth we can become courageous. This in turn let’s us face fear and other challenging feelings and circumstances.
The links are weird, if you don’t tap on the play button right away, the page defaults to asking for my email address *again* to be on a waitlist. It kind of feels like this service is more focused on getting my email for marketing purposes and not actually showing the videos.
I am struggling with PTSD and the fear resulting. What helps is exercise, guided meditation and the support of friends and community! I look forward to learning more tools to bring back to the Rare Mamas i work with!
Thanks Tara! What have helped me is definetly to breath and be aware of how fear feels inside my body and to watch my thoughts as clouds moving in the sky.
As you mentioned Tara, facing the fear. Letting the fear stay in the presence of a therapeutic and/or a safe environment, validating the fear and at the same time acknowledge that sometimes the fear is not as big as we think. Having some key words or a phrase that we can repeat to ourselves when we feel the fear, that help us know that although it is real that we feel the fear; we are here, well and breathing.
Alcohol helps me face fear in social situations; a silent mantra in work situations; the inhale and deep exhale of breath when faced with anxious thoughts when alone; reminding myself that I am doing everything/the best I can when facing the fear of financial difficulty/insecurity. Remembering that fear stands for false expectations appearing real and not to (excessively) worry about things that might not (and usually don’t) happen.
My mentoring work involves listening deeply to their fears and stories both personally and in their work. I find they experience a sense of safety which enables them to access their own wisdom and intuition which supports them to be gentler and more present to their fears and their insights.
Notice-Welcome-Feel-Love
Recognising that the fears we don’t face become our limits.
Knowing that dread often means I care about something.
My practice of breathing, recognizing that fear is present, investigating the reason why I am fearful and working to move through it.
Connecting to the breath
Breathing
Recognizing it, not reacting to it, acting while it is present
Knowing I have friends to discuss it with.
I find with both my clients and myself, that when we have an understanding of our basic goodness, and can distinguish that from the shame and fears of traumatic identification, the heart can breath and open again. So by gaining a knowing of our inherent worth we can become courageous. This in turn let’s us face fear and other challenging feelings and circumstances.