Purple Couch Psychology

good reminder of the many forms of anxiety...

Trauma responses don’t always look the same for everyone.

This Is What Your Unsolicited Advice Sounds Like Oh, you’re drowning? Focus on the positive in the situation.

Don’t be a red shirt.

When a pregnant woman experiences trauma, its effects can sometimes impact her child – even in utero.

So how does this happen?

Well, we created an infographic you can use with clients to help them visualize how trauma can get passed on by caregivers.

If you’d like to print our infographics you can check them all out here: https://www.nicabm.com/category/group-3/infographic/

Why can't we focus during this pandemic? If you’re reading this, it might be because it’s a last resort. For two months, your mind has been all over the place, unable to focus on anything other than moving to different rooms in your house to carry out required human functions. You might be starting this article again, having tried it e...

Remember this when you feel like you’re not enough. 📷

Borrowed from a friend-thanks Ken Lima-Coelho
Read this.

Your Only Goal Is to Arrive To survive quarantine, you need to change your metrics

This!
📷 Maria Karaiskos

the big questions

EASTER REPOST.

This is a comforting reminder. Everyone is grieving.

Normal human responses to a global pandemic that do not need to be pathologized or treated as abnormal:

• Food and eating challenges & difficulties

• Resurgence of compulsive or addictive behaviours

• Obsessive or instrusive thoughts, memories or fears

• Generalised fear, anxiety, panic & overwhelm

• Depression, dissociation, shutdown, freeze, hopelessness

• Feelings of abandonment or loneliness or isolation

• Sense of loss of control or powerlessness. Feeling confused

• Anxiety around money, shelter, food, and other survival needs

• Past traumas being triggered, activated or re-experienced

• Health anxiety heightened (about Covid19 and otherwise)

• Feeling unheard or unseen amidst the flood of stories

• Feeling like existing chronic needs are being ignored

• Thoughts and feelings about death and dying

• New and old grief surfacing

• Feelings of anger, irritation and frustration

• Caring for everyone to own detriment. Compassion fatigue

• Feeling exhausted, fatigued, unmotivated, lethargic

• Hyper-focus, surges of energy, keeping 'doing' to distract

• Immune system depleted, other illnesses starting, chronic flares

(list not exhaustive)

AND if you do need support with any of it, that's okay too.

Sarah Mariann Martland

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For all the parents I spoke to last week....

It's all okay! ❤️

How To Make The Most Out Of Teletherapy Right Now Social distancing means no in-person sessions, so here's how to use online therapy for your mental health.

Hello! With all that is happening in the world right now, many clients have asked if Purple Couch has a page. Decided to spend some time resurrecting it today....Purple Couch is open for appointments via online or phone. Hope everyone is managing well enough during these very interesting times.

Purple Couch Psychology updated their info in the about section.

Purple Couch Psychology updated their business hours.

Purple Couch Psychology updated their address.

This Is What ‘Self-Care’ REALLY Means, Because It’s Not All Salt Baths And Chocolate Cake Did you use the right filter for that ‘gram of your impeccably prepared acai bowl?

If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.

(Image via COURAGEworks)

Good job today.

To Everyone Who’s Barely Holding It Together Sometimes it feels as though everything is falling apart. This might help.

The ‘mental load’ is burning women out IT’S 6.30pm. The kids are in their high chairs and you’re trying to coax them to eat while keeping an eye on the stove.