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It's exam season for lots of people right now, whether that's NCEA, uni, or your teenager at the dinner table. 📚 Your brain works best when you feel positive, not overwhelmed. So feed yourself, your mates, or your children plenty of unconditional love and encouragement. You've got this. 💙 The full post is on the blog, link in bio. #examseason #ncea #examstress #parenting #nz

Just grabbed a coffee from @twospoonsnz up the road. Always a great coffee from some beautiful humans. ☕💙

Big week. What fills your tank back up? 🔋 🏖️ A beach walk or ☕ The couch and a coffee I'm couch and coffee, every time. Yours? #selfcare #rest #weekend #nz

First day as a school counsellor. Kids running everywhere, having fun… and my chest went tight. 😬 Turns out my feelings were time travelling, back to being bullied every day at 14. Your feelings are real. They just don't always belong to now. 🌊 That was then, this is now. The full story and 4 steps to come back to now are on the blog, and my free Thought Tracker is there too. Link in bio. #anxiety #mentalhealth #counselling #nz

The best time to learn to escape a rip is before you're in one. 🏊 On my first day as a school counsellor, my chest went tight. I was being hit by some echos from the past. What helped was the practice I'd done years earlier: talking things through, joining a band, speaking up in small, safe places, and, seeing my own counsellor. Mental muscles work like physical ones. What's one small thing you could practise this week? 💪 The full story is on the blog, link in bio. #anxiety #selfgrowth #mentalhealth #bullying #counselling #nz

Hear your favourite song from when you were fifteen and you're suddenly back there. 🎶 That's your brain taking a well-worn river. Anxious thought patterns work the same way, but rivers can move. Journaling, a good chat with a friend, a laugh, a counsellor: these are your sandbags. Which one will you try this week? The full story is on the blog, link in bio. #anxiety #cbt #neuroplasticity #mentalhealth #nz

Creating distance between your memories and your feelings is super empowering! It can really take the sting out of them. #ptsd #therapy #anxiety #personalgrowth

Feelings are great time travellers but poor truth tellers. More at newinsight.co.nz. #anxiety #cbt #nvc #depression #wellbeing

Saw this over on the Center for Nonviolent Communication page and couldn't agree more. Not easy but very effective. #nvc #therapy #relationships