Have you ever felt a bad case of butterflies in your stomach before an examination or a job interview? Or have you experienced racing heart and sweaty palms before your first date or any other important events? Or perhaps you have had situations where your breaths were shallow and quick and it was hard forContinue reading “Overcoming Anxious Feelings & Thoughts with Psychotherapy “
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EMDR Therapy
Have you ever wonder what is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy? Learn more from the comic below: About the contributor Im May is a psychotherapist at Soulmatics. She uses a combination of mind-body therapeutic approaches to support her clients through their journeys of healing and recovery. She is an EMDR International Association certifiedContinue reading “EMDR Therapy”
De-stigmatising Mental Health
We pay so much attention to support our physical health when we are ill, however, when it comes to mental health we cower in shame. Unlike physical health, we often feel ashamed to speak about mental health, we stigmatise this topic as if it is a plague. Majority may not have as extreme way ofContinue reading “De-stigmatising Mental Health”
Trauma? What’s that?
About the contributor Im May is a psychotherapist at Soulmatics. She uses a combination of mind-body therapeutic approaches to support her clients through their journeys of healing and recovery. She is an EMDR International Association certified EMDR therapist. She is presently working on her certification to be Neuro Affective Touch therapist as she keenly believesContinue reading “Trauma? What’s that?”
Trauma
It is common to perceive trauma as an event that happened to us or a situation which overwhelmed us. We failed to recognise that trauma is the effect of how our body was impacted after certain undesirable event(s). With our body being affected, generally our mind is affected as well and our mental health deteriorates,Continue reading “Trauma”
Stress Nuggets 2: Stress & Body
We learned about how stress can affect our brain in Stress Nuggets 1: Stress & Brain. Today, we are going learn how stress can also affect our body. We often think “it’s all in our mind” when we feel overwhelmed. However, stress can take a toll on our bodies. It can cause diseases, lower ourContinue reading “Stress Nuggets 2: Stress & Body”
Stress Nuggets 1: Stress & Brain
Recently we learnt about how emotions affect our brain. How about stress? Did you know that chronic stress can have long term adverse effects on you and it can be inherited by your future generation? An optimal amount of stress can actually be beneficial for us actually. But how can we strike the balance? InContinue reading “Stress Nuggets 1: Stress & Brain”
Emotion & Brain
Curious about how our emotion brain (a.k.a limbic brain) affects our thoughts, behaviours and stress responses? Watch this short video to learn more! Keen to learn how you can regulate your stress and emotions? At Soulmatics, we provide a body-mind approach for a more holistic mental health service. Get in touch with us to learnContinue reading “Emotion & Brain”
About Somatic Experiencing…(part 2)
Hi everyone, here is the part 2 insert of understanding Somatic Experiencing (SE). Enjoy! What does somatic experiencing encompass, and are there any (scientific?) principles that it’s based on? Who is it for (or not for)? Yes, as the founder of SE – Dr. Peter Levine is a scientist, a lot of the concepts usedContinue reading “About Somatic Experiencing…(part 2)”
About Somatic Experiencing…
Hi readers, I know it has been a (long) while since I posted any blogs. I thought of sharing about what Somatic Experiencing is in brief and easily understood manner in a series of posts. The posts would come in very simple question and answer format. So no worries, no long-winded posts! The first isContinue reading “About Somatic Experiencing…”
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