emotions

Breaking the Patterns from the Past

Welcome to this 3 part video training series on

Breaking the Patterns from the Past.

This video series is for anyone who wants to gain a deeper understanding of why we often find ourselves stuck with difficult emotions, unhelpful thoughts and self sabotaging behaviours.

The information in these videos is absolutely groundbreaking and is based on the most up to date scientific research from the fields of neuroscience, attachment, trauma and child development.

Video # 1 What Every Child Needs

In this first video, you will learn about what we need as children to develop a healthy balanced brain that allows us to thrive in life.

You will also learn about essential emotional needs and the devastating impact on the brain when these needs go unmet for prolonged periods of time.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD VIDEO # 1 WORKSHEET

Video # 2 will be posted on the blog section of this site in the next couple of days, so you might want to bookmark this page if you are interested in finding out how your present struggles might be related to your childhood environment.

In the meantime, why not join our free facebook group 'Breaking the Patterns from the Past'

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the information in the video - whatever they are! so please consider leaving a comment below.

How To Identify Emotions & Feelings

In my last post, I shared one of my series of videos on emotions -'Dealing with overwhelming emotions'. However, before we can really get anywhere with managing and processing emotions, we need to first be able to identify them.

And this isn't an easy task if we have spent most of our life avoiding, suppressing or numbing our emotions. Initially, it can be really difficult just staying with our feelings long enough to name them.

On top of this, the way our brains have developed can make it biologically quite difficult to identify our feelings. This is often one of the main reasons a lot of self help books or therapies don't produce optimal results.

We first have to create the capacity for change in our brains.

Check out the video below to find out more about this and also learn a 6 step process for identifying your emotions and feelings.

Click here to get a copy of the emotions and feelings list mentioned in the video.

If you found this video interesting, or you struggle to manage your emotions, why not have a look through our schema pages or join our free face book group. Breaking the Patterns from the Past.

Our new online programme designed to help you heal the patterns from the past launches on Monday 14th May so if this is something that you might be interested in click here for more details

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the information in the video, so please feel free to leave a comment below.

How To Deal With Overwhelming Emotions

One of the most important skills we can master in life is the ability to manage our emotions and feelings.

The inability to manage and process emotions effectively is at the heart of the majority of mental health issues we face today.

Anxiety and depression happen when we get 'stuck' in high or low emotional states.

Addictions take hold when we rely exclusively on external sources to change the way we feel.

Over-eating becomes a problem when we use food to 'stuff our feelings down' because other options don't seem to be available to us.

If we want happy, successful relationships and true emotional intimacy, we need to be able to express our feelings - no matter how scary - and also be able to sit with the uncomfortable feelings of others.

If we want to achieve the goals we set for ourselves, we need to be able to push through a range of uncomfortable emotions - fear, anxiety, self doubt, guilt, frustration and perhaps shame - to get where we want to be in life.

But learning to deal with emotions and feelings effectively is not something we can learn overnight. Quite often, our brains have developed in ways that make it biologically very difficult to manage emotional states.

If you want to learn a little more about this, check out my video below on "Dealing with overwhelming emotions"