Being more resilient
It's a nice idea, but is it even possible? 🤨
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Resilience
Resilience
Not a dirty word, or something that can be built, or trained, but a natural capacity we cannot be separate from 🔮
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Do you let bruises heal?
Looking to the body for the mind cheat-sheet 🤕
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Metaphor
I burnt myself and it taught me all sorts
What this slowly blistering, pebble-sized burn on my hand reveals about all our struggles 😫
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Metaphor
Protective bias
When the thing that's trying to help you, innocently gets in the way instead 😬
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Trauma
Traffic lights
A super-practical metaphor that will get you through the toughest of situations 🚦
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Metaphor
A career poem
Written by a much younger Giles, and remarkably prescient ✍🏻
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Poetry
Getting low moods to move on
The two tags I use regularly on the website that hold the key to this 🏷️
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Moods
Putting your hand back in the fire
We wouldn't dream of doing this, physically. So why is it ok to do it mentally? 🤦🏻
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Resilience
Peace be with you
What if it's just too simple for the mind? 🤓
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Presence
A deeper level of okayness
There's something within you that transcends time, space and matter ✨
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Sunday Spiritual
17 Days: Thought realisation
The Insight Series - Part 2. Seeing through the outside-in misunderstanding 💭
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MECHANICS
Anticipating vs. panicking
What to do when something that's helpful goes and strays into ‘unhelpful’ territory 📉
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Anxiety