Grab your cuppa! Tomorrow morning we're going to look at simple and effective ways to calm and quiet anxiety. Fb Live: https://www.facebook.com/lindameredith.org calm-anxiety

If your partner said to you "change your vibe" what would your response be? Would both of you adopt this phrase to help shift the vibe around? just-SOLD

Overcoming Emotional Dysregulation Grab your cuppa, this will be informative and a process you can repeat to assist you from recovery to remission. FB Live: https://www.facebook.com/lindameredith.org 8-Rules-DysfunctionalFamilys1

I've been pondering this today. How can we break free of the neurology/biology/physiology of mental health challenges unless we consciously choose to look for a different understanding, a different way of doing things? How can we do something different to yesterday if I don't observe when I have the same reaction/response? When changing my response is hard what can I do to ask for help? Complex Ptsd is not about going over the past, our body and brain are already soaking in it. Being prepared to slowly but surely build a consciousness around the external and internal responses wanting to derail our day to day life will help. Most importantly of all, we need to connect with other people. We need to turn against the internal messages of trauma and being willing to begin reaching out to safe people. Those who live their life with values and integrity, those who are compassionate and kind, and those who care deeply. Then those who remind us to laugh! They are so crucial to recovery as well. Sitting in the midst of trauma brain can be so dark at times. Laughter is good for us as it brings more oxygen into our system and we need it. Hypo and Hypervigilance have restricted our oxygen intake for too long. If you could choose one thing to transform in your day to day life and help you head towards recovery what would that be? quote2a

Are you in the "this sucks" zone today? What are willing to do to get out of the "this sucks" zone? Do you have a strategy to help you? I was talking to a beautiful soul today and they said these words to me. This beautiful soul had the courage to break years of being held captive by trauma in their own home. One night we were chatting via video online, and together they found the courage to walk out their front door. Talking with another friend today about courage I realised we don't know we have any until we choose to start using it. And then when used consistently it begins to snowball. When we know we can step out the front door, we take a slightly bigger risk and walk to the end of the driveway. There's no doubt it takes courage to go from recovery to remission. The good news is we do it together, in groups, we do it together over video chat, we do it together in our communities, and we do so with intent. Let's continue to do this journey together, because #togetherwecan this-sucks-zone

#thingsweneedtoknow Grab your cuppa and notepaper and lets look take a look at things we need to know, for ourselves and for our family/relationships. See you there! FB Live: https://www.facebook.com/lindameredith.org 8-Rules-DysfunctionalFamilys

Conversations we need to have - Fighting for Your Heart Fb Live: https://www.facebook.com/lindameredith.org FB-Live-33

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Conversations we need to have - Loneliness FB Live: https://www.facebook.com/lindameredith.org FB-Live-32

Where can you recognise how brave you've been this week? When my kids were growing up I didn't have a lot of spare time for sitting with them in their emotions. I had 3 kids on the spectrum, only 2 diagnosed, I wasn't diagnosed as yet, and just keeping 4 different people in a manageable order was a challenge, before the mental health challenges came along too. Today, I was brave. I stopped and spent time with my daughter and how she felt, instead of having to try and fix everything, instead of researching and finding answers like I normally would do. We were together and we talked about the process to come for diagnosis with her unnamed, as yet, health challenge. I affirmed that no matter what we're going through this together. I was brave and sat talking with my youngest through his mental health challenges. I was vulnerable about how I felt too. We didn't hold anything back either, we're brutally honest about how challenging it is for him and for me as well. He's been dealing with suicidal thoughts since 16 and we just know together we'll make it through the other side. Why are these two things brave? When we've never been raised to talk about emotions, never known how to manage these conversations, it takes a lot of courage to have them. The outcomes can be unknown and stop us from attempting to have them. Courage is developed the more often we're prepared to have these conversations and experience that none of us walks away from the challenges. There's nothing easy about life. There sure is a lot of love, joy, peace and patience to be shared, memories made in being there for each other, being each other's greatest cheer squad and knowing that no matter what none of us gives up on each other, ever. We are the first generation to begin the change for many that come after us. Let's be brave and begin to have tough conversations. Conversations that none of us thought we'd ever have to have. Let's be brave and create connections through the hard times. That's where genuine love is experienced, life's challenges. quotes1

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There's a number of questions we can reflect on with this quote. Where am I feeling unsafe? What about my future seems uncertain? How can I learn to manage these emotions? Am I putting one foot in front of the other to create a different version of my anxiety this time next year? Are there tools I need to discover to help me understand my anxiety more deeply than the physical responses? Good questions help us heal, help us move from recovery to remission. Our ability to self reflect is linked in our brain. The medial prefrontal cortex connects into the emotional part of our brain and also the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, where our ability to process life in an order exists. Without self reflection we can't resolve the unprocessed emotions in our Amygdala and our Hypocampus can't file them away. We need to do this as part of our process to help our brain recover from Trauma. #togetherwecan #fromrecoverytoremission quotes-copy1

Conversations We Need to Have - How to Recognise Anxiety in Others. It's not as easy as we think! Grab your cuppa and notepaper and let's look at what we need to identify and how we can have conversations that matter. FB Live: https://www.facebook.com/lindameredith.org FB-Live-31

Do you believe you have to go through this healing journey alone? Do depression and anxiety have you isolating yourself? Believing you'll be lonely for a lifetime, that no one could possibly understand what's happening inside of you? The truth is there are many who would understand, relate and show compassion. Reach out, one step, one day at a time. Rebuild, create the life you were born to live. You are loved. quotes-copy

Tomorrow morning grab your cuppa, pen and paper and let's look at how we can identify automatic thoughts and how they're impacting our recovery. Fb Live: https://www.facebook.com/lindameredith.org FB-Live-3

How are you today? Are you having trouble sleeping? Have you been ignoring how you're feeling throughout the day and then trying to process all those emotions when your head hits the pillow? Yes, I've been there too! Sometimes we just have to take time during the day and grab space to breathe. I know you can do this! Well-be-having-a-donut-buffet-over-at-conference-room-1

What if every crossroad we come to we choose to go within, to delve more deeply into our spirit in order that our soul and body can become more aligned and healed along with His purpose for our life to unfold? What if the crossroad represents our willingness to risk even more for Him? Just as He risked it all for us! #complexptsd #thesoullady #awakeningyoursoul #complexptsdrecovery #ptsd #ptsdrecovery #traumarecovery #wedorecoverytogether #depression #anxiety #mentalhealth #christian #therapy #traumarecoverycoach 3-2

#complexptsd #childhoodtrauma the events that happened, the abuse, the neglect, the bullying, does not have to reduce us to a life lived in the less zone. We are created to live a life in the whole zone. Let's do this together. The trauma didn't happen in a vacuum, we weren't alone, so we need to connect with other people to ensure healing takes place too. #thesoullady #awakeningyoursoul #ptsd #depression #traumarecovery #cptsd #mentalhealth 1

We as parents make choices to nurture and love our children consciously by examining our own lives and what we need to grow through and change. If we don't there will not be change for the generations that come after us. My children were raised differently to my upbringing and I wholeheartedly encourage them to take what worked from me and use it and what didn't work for them to discover more healthy ways of doing parenting. Too many generations have gone before us of parents saying, believing and through implication that we have to do it their way to be considered successful in life AND/OR to be included in the family. No. Just No. Belonging in our family needs to be unconditional in love. Boundaries, yes. But love and nurturing, always in all ways. the-northern-5