Is Brainspotting Training Right for Therapists?
Patrice Flanagan-Morris reviews what Brainspotting can do for your clients and what the training structure looks like for a weekend.
Patrice Flanagan-Morris
Hope Through Winter and COVID-19
Are you nervous about the upcoming winter months and your mental wellness? Here are 8 tips to support you in creating more hope this winter.
What Is Mindfulness and How To Support It as a Habit
Mindfulness is not simply meditating every day, it is a practice of intentional awareness of each moment throughout our day. Practicing mindfulness practices daily, bringing simple awareness and intention to our thoughts and actions, we create a greater understanding of ourselves, what sets us off, and brings us joy.
Brainspotting Motto: Where You Look Affects How You Feel
“Where you look affects how you feel” is the motto of the Brainspotting community. It is all about the understanding that we orient where we look towards pleasure and pain. Our eyes are connected to the survival system within our brains, it’s essential for our safety.
Pushing Outside the Comfort Zone and Into Growth
As you move into your learning zone and gain trust that you will know where the line of unnecessary risk is, your comfort and learning zones grow. In turn, you can push yourself a little farther, find and take more opportunities you didn’t know existed, and create more space to find and be who you are.
How Brainspotting Has Changed My Practice
Since enhancing my Brainspotting abilities and engaging in my own work, my practice has changed. I now see myself as a guide, someone to walk with you through the pain to find your healing and connect to yourself.
Calming the Sympathetic Nervous System
Our sympathetic nervous system (SNS) helps us engage in fight or flight so that we can protect ourselves from danger. The brain is not able to discern perceived vs real threat, it simply sees a threat as a threat.
Resources To Discuss Race, Racism and Our Society
To be a part of conversations, race, racism and our society, and to have opinions, we have to be open to new information and continue to challenge ourselves to gather information to be educated on institutional racism and its impacts on our community.
Knowing Your Values, Knowing Yourself
When we know our values and align with them in our day-to-day activities, as well as the more challenging moments and decisions in life, we can live more confidently, happily, and strongly.
Yoga Poses for Daily Resets
Yoga poses are a wonderful tool for many that help them become more embodied, connected to themselves and increase flexibility and muscle toning. They are simple, take less than five minutes, and help reset the mind and body to be more present, engaged, and clear.
Self-Compassion to Clear
Now that you have been able to create more self-awareness of your mind you can work towards self-compassion and validation to allow a release of the chaos.
We Are All Leaders
We are all leaders, we all have people looking at us, modeling from us, and learning from us. In these times of crisis, this is amplified. So what does it mean to be a leader, especially in times of crisis?
