Mental Health Healing
Trauma Talks + Tips: How to be Less Stressy + Depressy
The body not only keeps the score, but affects every other area of our health and well being. That's why when you hear someone lovingly recommend to just "breathe and relax," many times you are suppressing feelings or actions that would result in just the opposite. But what if you had some tangible tools to self-regulate and return to homeostasis when your world starts to spin?
And at this point you're probably thinking, okay, sure have my breathing techniques and I know I am supposed to relax, but how can I actually slow down when my life doesn't stop?
And you're right, it may not stop, but I can help you start to slow.
"Your feelings are real, but not always accurate..."
Learning to Cope with All our Feels
Licensed Counselor, Allie Archer shares some tangible tips to actually start taking our thoughts and emotions captive in order to process alongside scripture and in accordance to the world around us.
4 Steps to Implement Healing Right Now
1. Radical Acceptance: Accepting your reality for how it is, not how you want it to be. This is fully acknowledging the good, the bad and the ugly in life.
2. Check the Facts: What is actually true? What is an appropriate response?
3. Self Soothe: Do you know how to calm yourself and get grounded?
Mindfulness journal
5-4-3-2-1 Grounding with your senses (linked below)
Are you actually breathing….?
What are some “pocket ways” I can soothe myself
4. Taking Care of Yourself
Are you sleeping?
Are you moving your body 3-4 times a week?
Are you eating balanced?
Are you connecting with others?
How is your hygiene?
Are you having mindfulness time?
Have you had your yearly check up/ blood work? (It is tragic when there is an underlying health issue going on such as thyroid dysfunction, and you are beating yourself up for struggling with depression).
4 Steps to Implement Healing Right Now
1. Radical Acceptance: Accepting your reality for how it is, not how you want it to be. This is fully acknowledging the good, the bad and the ugly in life.
2. Check the Facts: What is actually true? What is an appropriate response?
3. Self Soothe: Do you know how to calm yourself and get grounded?
Mindfulness journal
5-4-3-2-1 Grounding with your senses (linked below)
Are you actually breathing….?
What are some “pocket ways” I can soothe myself
4. Taking Care of Yourself
Are you sleeping?
Are you moving your body 3-4 times a week?
Are you eating balanced?
Are you connecting with others?
How is your hygiene?
Are you having mindfulness time?
Have you had your yearly check up/ blood work? (It is tragic when there is an underlying health issue going on such as thyroid dysfunction, and you are beating yourself up for struggling with depression).
Reconciling the Fear with Faith
Allie reminds us that we don't have to be comfortable with our hurt in life, but we do have to recognize what's true. And at the end of the day, that truth is that you were created to be fully known and fully loved. If you want to hear more about how to self-regulate when the overhwhelm comes, how the Church can support the mental health conversation, and what real life healing looks like Listen to the Full Episode Now.
