by Evan Dwan | Sep 28, 2022 | News |
Allowing and accepting emotion is important in working with emotion and the first step in changing it. This involves observing it, welcoming it, acknowledging it is there and accepting it. Then it is important to step back from it and experience it like a wave,...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 20, 2022 | News |
In Undoing Aloneness, Diana Fosha describes how, from the perspective of attachment theory, emotional safety is not being alone with frightening experiences. Emotional disturbance has its roots in being alone with overwhelming experiences in the earliest years of...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 20, 2022 | News |
The capacity to ‘mentalize’ is important for regulating emotions and managing relationships. Mentalizing involves paying mindful attention to your own and others mental states and involves more complex understanding of behaviour in relation to the mental states that...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 20, 2022 | News |
Focusing on unmet emotional needs mobilises primary adaptive emotions to create change. Emotions guide us to problem-solve and into actions to get needs met. The adaptive sadness of grief can help extinguish feelings of loneliness and unworthiness. Accessing needs and...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 20, 2022 | News |
Every emotion involves a specific set of needs. When needs are met, experience flows and emotions are fleeting. If we feel shame but at the same time, we are validated by someone meaningful we gain reassurance and feel comfortable and confident again. If needs are not...
