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Managing Fear 2: Inhabiting our bodies to calm our threat system
If, like me, you sometimes struggle with anxiety for no apparent reason, or can be triggered into feeling vulnerable and frightened, you...
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Managing Fear 1: Regulating our Breath to Calm our Threat System
Following my recent post about Trauma-Related Fear , this is the first in a series of articles exploring some of the ways in which we can manage the anxiety, panic and fear emanating from the trauma of losing our loved one. It can be very tempting when we're feeling anxious to escalate the sense of distress by becoming emotionally dysregulated, and even angry. This might take the form of shouting at others, rushing around manically, or just telling ourselves that we simply
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Trauma-Related Fear
Alongside the constant ebb and flow of grief, many of us will be experiencing ongoing episodes of the terrible, sometimes crippling fear...
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Joy after Loss
Alek and I escaped to southern Spain again this winter . It was the fourth anniversary of Anton's death just before Christmas. One...
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