Hope is born in the Darkness, like a lighthouse calling out to a lost ship at sea, it will safely bring you through your personal storm. It will encourage and guide you safely
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is part of a range of strategies, for depression, grief, loneliness, and loss as examples.
It is a therapy I like to teach my clients to access, as it teaches them to be their own Counsellors , it is a great problem-solving tool, it is empowering and can relive stress and help with finding happiness.
I encourage my clients to read,
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
Book by David D. Burns
CBT is a formula, to use when faced with a problem, there are basic steps, to put the problem through the formula. The second step is to gauge the emotions, you are feeling, at this time of stress, identifying your feelings is not taught at schools, so it can take some assistance in identifying what the feeling is, and just how strongly you are experiencing it. Measuring the intensity can be insightful, and the last step in the formula is to measure the feelings again 1 out of 100. Usually the intensity of the emotion, has dropped significantly at the end of the CBT formula session.
Stress Management is also, about lifestyle. Exercising and eating well, taking the best care of yourself . All the above help and hopefully the stress is not long term, however, sometimes financial worries, relationship break ups, work situations when dealing with difficult people can prolong the stress .
Having a STOIC approach to problematic, ongoing situations can become a way of life. The dictionary defines Stoic as meaning:
a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining.
“The Stoic Challenge”
A Philosopher’s Guild to becoming tougher, calmer and more resilient
William B. Irvine
The above is another book, that uses the stoic tool.
I like the way, William Irvine frames it when he writes:
“many people, I should add, have an incorrect perception of Stoics. They think of them as emotionless, beings who primary goal was to stand there and bare it, to grimly take whatever life threw at them, but this is not the case. Their goal was not to banish emotions but to minimise the number of negative emotions – such as feeling of frustration, anger, grief, and envy that they experienced. They had nothing against the experience of positive emotions, including delight and even joy. “ … “ their goal was not to remain calm whiles suffering a setback, but rather to experience a setback without there by suffering. An important difference. “
Stress management is reframing the approach to the problem, I like to help my clients find out just how to do this.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is part of a range of strategies, for depression, grief, loneliness, and loss as examples.
It is a therapy I like to teach my clients to access, as it teaches them to be their own Counsellors , it is a great problem-solving tool, it is empowering and can relive stress and help with finding happiness.
I encourage my clients to read,
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
Book by David D. Burns
CBT is a formula, to use when faced with a problem, there are basic steps, to put the problem through the formula. The second step is to gauge the emotions, you are feeling, at this time of stress, identifying your feelings is not taught at schools, so it can take some assistance in identifying what the feeling is, and just how strongly you are experiencing it. Measuring the intensity can be insightful, and the last step in the formula is to measure the feelings again 1 out of 100. Usually the intensity of the emotion, has dropped significantly at the end of the CBT formula session.
Stress Management is also, about lifestyle. Exercising and eating well, taking the best care of yourself . All the above help and hopefully the stress is not long term, however, sometimes financial worries, relationship break ups, work situations when dealing with difficult people can prolong the stress .
Having a STOIC approach to problematic, ongoing situations can become a way of life. The dictionary defines Stoic as meaning:
a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining.
“The Stoic Challenge”
A Philosopher’s Guild to becoming tougher, calmer and more resilient
William B. Irvine
The above is another book, that uses the stoic tool.
I like the way, William Irvine frames it when he writes:
“many people, I should add, have an incorrect perception of Stoics. They think of them as emotionless, beings who primary goal was to stand there and bare it, to grimly take whatever life threw at them, but this is not the case. Their goal was not to banish emotions but to minimise the number of negative emotions – such as feeling of frustration, anger, grief, and envy that they experienced. They had nothing against the experience of positive emotions, including delight and even joy. “ … “ their goal was not to remain calm whiles suffering a setback, but rather to experience a setback without there by suffering. An important difference. “
Stress management is reframing the approach to the problem, I like to help my clients find out just how to do this.
