Tag: self care
Posted on June 26, 2017
by Courage Coaching
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Happy Monday dear friends & followers! After a wonderful 10 days off work, celebrating my birthday with friends and exploring new places with my husband, I am feeling grateful and refreshed. Today’s topic is especially important to me, as someone I care about deeply… Continue Reading “High functioning depression”
Category: Adversity & support, Blogging, Coaching tips, Depression, Life tips, mental health, Mental illness, recovery, Resilience, self care, Self-reflection & self-awareness, Youtube videosTags: adversity, Blogging, Depression, high functioning depression, mental health, mental health awareness, mental health blog, mental health vlog, Mental illness, mild depression, self care, self-awareness, support, the seriousness of mild depression, therapy, vlogging
As much as I dislike watching the news and tend to limit what I take in, it is increasingly difficult to not be affected by the constant bombardment of war footage, terrorist attacks, murder and suffering. When you are a highly sensitive & empathetic… Continue Reading “The aftermath of a traumatic incident”
Category: Adversity & support, Blogging, Coaching tips, Compassion, complex ptsd, grief, Life tips, mental health, recovery, Resilience, self care, Self-reflection & self-awareness, Youtube videosTags: anxiety, brutality, coping mechanisms, coping with trauma, disbelief, fear, life threatening, living with trauma, post traumatic stress, self care, stress, terrorism, terrorist attacks, the aftermath of trauma, threat to your life, trauma, trauma brain, trauma survivors, traumatic incident, violence, war, witnessing violence, worry
Posted on May 31, 2017
by Courage Coaching
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Inspired by a comment made by a friend on her facebook page, I wanted to address the difficulty of finding a balance between self-soothing and running away from emotional pain. I also wanted to write about what it actually means to self-soothe. Self-soothing is… Continue Reading “Finding a balance between self-soothing and running away from emotional pain is tough..”
Category: Adversity & support, anxiety, Coaching tips, Life tips, Resilience, self care, Self-reflection & self-awarenessTags: anxiety, avoidance, blocking emotions, coaching, emotional pain, fear, negative emotions, numbing, running away from problems, self care, self compassion, self-soothing
Posted on April 3, 2017
by Courage Coaching
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When you don’t get certain basic needs met in your childhood, there will come a time in your future where you will eventually become awakened to these unmet needs. Although this isn’t the same for everyone, there is usually one feeling which is most… Continue Reading “The loss of what should have been”
Category: Adversity & support, Child abuse, complex ptsd, Depression, grief, mental health, Mental illness, Narcissistic abuse, Narcissistic abuse syndrome, Resilience, self care, Self-reflection & self-awareness, UncategorizedTags: anxiety, childhood adversity, childhood trauma, cptsd, Depression, emotional orphans, emotional pain, grief, isolation, loss, one parent families, self care, self compassion, trauma, truth, unmet childhood needs
Posted on November 14, 2016
by Courage Coaching
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Nobody told you when you were a child that life could feel so tough sometimes. Nobody told you that life could drain the joy right out of you, just when you thought things were getting better. Life is a crazy rollercoaster and you have… Continue Reading “You are not a failure”
Category: Adversity & support, assertiveness, Blogging, Compassion, Dealing Criticism, Life tips, low self-esteem, mental health, Negativity, Resilience, self careTags: becoming resilient, Blogging, comfort, criticism, failure, health, inner critic, low self-esteem, low self-worth, mental health, Mental illness, mistake, motivation, Negativity, not good enough, outer critic, positive thinking, progress, reduce stress, Resilience, self care, self-doubt, stress, you are enough, you are not a failure, you are worthy
Posted on October 3, 2016
by Courage Coaching
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If you are currently considering ‘No contact’ with a narcissistic parent, then this video might be helpful. Love Athina ♥ © All blog posts and images are owned by me and Courage Coaching. Please don’t use without consent and only re-blog if you would… Continue Reading “4 tips before going ‘No contact’ with a narcissistic parent”
Category: Adversity & support, anxiety, Child abuse, complex ptsd, Emotional abuse, Forgiveness in abuse, grief, mental health, Mental illness, Narcissistic abuse, Narcissistic abuse syndrome, Resilience, self careTags: anxiety, going no contact, healing from abuse, healing tips, narcissist, narcissistic abuse in the family, narcissistic parents, narcissistic personality disorder, narcissistic tips, no contact, recovery, self care, self-protection
Posted on September 27, 2016
by Courage Coaching
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‘Selfish’ means that you care enough about yourself to get your needs met; selfishness is a choice. On the other hand, when you think about being ‘needy’, this means that your unmet/unknown needs motivate you — there’s no choice. This is when you become… Continue Reading “Being selfish the right way”
Category: Life tips, self care, Self-reflection & self-awareness, UncategorizedTags: being selfish, dysfunctional relationships, healthy selfishness, Life tips, mental health, progress, put yourself first, self care, self compassion
Posted on September 4, 2016
by Courage Coaching
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I hope you are all enjoying your weekend to the best of your ability.To those of you struggling at the moment, I hope you are doing ok and reaching out for support. The blogging community is filled with wonderful, caring people and it is… Continue Reading “YouTube video:Is it possible to completely cure Complex PTSD?Tips for a better chance at healing.”
Category: Adversity & support, Child abuse, codependency, complex ptsd, Depression, Domestic abuse, Dysfuntional relationships, Emotional abuse, mental health, Mental illness, Narcissistic abuse syndrome, self care, UncategorizedTags: can you heal cptsd?, complex post traumatic stress, complex ptsd, complex trauma, cptsd, healing, is ctpsd curable?, moving forward, narcissism in the family, ptsd, self care, trauma
Posted on September 1, 2016
by Courage Coaching
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Although grief is a huge part of life, it is something that none of us want to experience. We can grieve over the loss of a loved one or beloved pet. We can grieve over the loss of a job or home. We can… Continue Reading “Grief”
Category: Adversity & support, courage, grief, Life tips, mental health, Resilience, self careTags: abuse, bereavement, coping mechanisms, coping with grief, death, Depression, grief, life change, life changes, loss of a home, loss of a job, loss of a loved one, loss of a pet, mental health, overwhelming grief, progress, self care, self compassion
Posted on August 29, 2016
by Courage Coaching
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Happy Monday fellow bloggers. This is quite a late post, so I hope it reaches some of you. I have just done another video on YouTube, where I talk about the 3 main stages of recovery that someone goes through, in particular concerning the… Continue Reading “Recovery from abuse- 3 basic stages & how to identify whether you have reached the acceptance stage of recovery”
Category: complex ptsd, courage, Dysfuntional relationships, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Narcissistic abuse, Narcissistic abuse syndrome, People Pleaser Syndrome, Resilience, self care, Self-reflection & self-awareness, UncategorizedTags: anxiety, Child abuse, childhood trauma, cptsd, Depression, dysfunctional relationships, Emotional abuse, healing, low self-esteem, mental health, Mental illness, narcissism in the family, Narcissistic abuse, narcissistic father, narcissistic mother, recovery, recovery from abuse, self care, self compassion, sexual abuse
