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…
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 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…
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 21, 2016
by Courage Coaching
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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 like to use the information on here.
Category: Adversity & support, Child abuse, Compassion, complex ptsd, Emotional abuse, Life tips, low self-esteem, mental health, Mental illness, Narcissistic abuse, self care, Self-reflection & self-awareness, UncategorizedTags: abusive childhood, addiction, adverse childhood experiences, anxiety, child within, childhood, childhood trauma, comfort, inner child, inner child healing, kindness, low self-worth, Mental illness, psychology, self compassion, self reflection, self-awareness, stress
Posted on October 10, 2016
by Courage Coaching
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Just a quick post about something that matters as equally as physical health. We all live with mental health and mental illness can touch all of us at least once in our lifetime.So how openly do we talk about it and how easily do…
Category: Adversity & support, anxiety, complex ptsd, Depression, Loneliness, low self-esteem, mental health, Mental illness, Resilience, self care, UncategorizedTags: anxiety, bipolar, borderline personality, Child abuse, childhood trauma, cptsd, Depression, Domestic abuse, Loneliness, mental health, Mental illness, Narcissistic abuse, psychology, psychosomatic illnesses, ptsd, recovery, reduce the stigma of mental illness, sexual abuse, stress, trauma, world mental health day
Posted on August 8, 2016
by Courage Coaching
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Apologies for not having posted since Friday..My laptop has been very slow so I have found it extremely hard getting stuff done on it. In this post I would like to introduce Co-coaching to those of you who have never heard of it.. My…
Category: anxiety, Coaching tips, DepressionTags: active listening, anxiety, co-counseling, coaching, complex trauma, counseling, cptsd, Depression, feel heard, healing, low self-worth, mental health, mirroring, peer support, personal development, self care, self growth, stress, support, therapeutic relationship, therapy, unconditional positive regard, validating
Posted on May 12, 2016
by Courage Coaching
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This link below gives you a useful list of all the unhelpful thinking styles that we might use in our daily lives.For those of you who suffer from depression or anxiety, keeping an eye on your thinking style is really important. Try and challenge…
Category: anxiety, Depression, personal coaching, UncategorizedTags: all or nothing thinking, anxiety, black & white thinking, catastrophising, cbt, change, cognitive behavioural coaching, cognitive distortions, Depression, destructive thinking, habit, Mental illness, negative thinking, overgeneralisation, panic, practice, progress, stress, thinking error, unhelpful thinking, unhelpful thinking styles
