Charlotte Moore - Neurofocused Solutions

21/10/2025

How the heck do I cope with my emotions?

I'm hurting people around me when I feel angry!
I'm hurting myself when I feel angry or sad!
I don't know what to do when I feel frustrated or angry!
I lash out when I feel frustrated!
I shout when I feel angry!
I hit when I feel frustrated or angry!
I know how to get what I want when I feel frustrated, angry or sad!

When emotions are intense is when most people start noticing them, this is also often the point when it is the hardest to regulate them to.
When emotions are not intense, they're hard to notice unless you are consciously looking for them!

So what have you noticed you do in response to feeling intense:
Anger?
Sadness?
Happiness?
Frustration?
Excitement?

Are the things you do in response to your emotions prosocial or antisocial?
Do they build your relationships up or break them down?
Do the things you do in the short term to alleviate or process your emotions help or hinder your relationships in the long run?

We often find unconscious "coping" mechanisms to manage the short term pain without consciously realising that there is often a long term consequence to that unconscious short term solution.

When we repeat these unconscious practices, we get better at them and don't even realise that we now have conditioned responses to emotions, and that often have an extended impact on those around us.

How can we change this?

1️⃣ Practicing becoming aware of the emotions you feel in the moment on a daily basis helps you to tune into emotions when they aren't intense, and in turn also helps your prefrontal cortex build emotional regulation skills.

2️⃣ List your emotions as single word answers:
Angry
Sad
Happy
Excited
Frustrated

Rules: don't follow up your single word answers with sentences that expand, justify, intellectualise, judge or have an opinion on your emotions list. Let them be single word answers.
Don't add a "because" in your mind after the emotion, that is justification and leads to defense which feeds more emotional intensity.

3️⃣ Start teaching yourself that the healthiest way to respond to your emotions are:
1. Pause
2. Notice them
3. Find where you feel them in your body
4. Trust that reducing emotional intensity doesn't require analysis, it just requires the recognition of the emotion
5. Create space from the person (mental and/or physical) until your emotions have softened and then return when they're not so intense to communicate your way through it.

If you would like more help learning how to do this or any other trauma or stress related reparation, please feel free to get in touch or book a session with me.

Happy brain training 🧠 💪

ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕥𝕖 𝕄𝕠𝕠𝕣𝕖
Clinical & Translational Neuroscientist | Neuroscience based intervention for trauma & stress | Neuroplasticity neurotherapy | Trauma & stress neuroeducation | Frontline stress & trauma training

"Understand your brain, body and behaviour through neuroscience"
~ Charlotte Moore

✅️ If you would like neuroscience based help to work through trauma or stress, please reach out to me or book a private in-person or virtual appointment.

✅️ I invite you to contact me via private message, whatsapp, phone call, or email to ask any questions or discuss how I can help you or your organisation.

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𝟎𝟒𝟎𝟕𝟎𝟖𝟎𝟓𝟎𝟒

12/10/2025

The problem isn't the "trigger", the "situation", the "experience", "their behaviour"!
That's all just stimulus to your nervous system!

The problem is what have learned to do in response to your emotions when the stimulus arises.

Did that statement just trigger you?

Being "triggered" is a sign that you haven't healed. Your brain still perceives threat.

There's no pill or shortcut to healing from trauma.
It requires a very simple but incredibly hard to learn skill:
To heal, you must learn to feel!

That's what people spend their lives trying to avoid after trauma.

The unconscious strategy for most people to manage their emotions is to distract, deflect or disassociate.

These strategies are designed to stop you paying attention to how you feel, sometimes what you think, and most importantly, they teach the brain and body that it's not safe to find the feeling/emotion.

For those who do try and connect with their feelings, they've often learned to do it incorrectly by using sentences to find the emotion.
Eg. I feel angry because she shouted at me.
This is NOT an emotion, it's a thought!

The emotion within that thought is "angry", a single word answer.
When correctly finding a feeling/emotion to acknowledge it, all that is needed is to "list" the single word emotion as you notice them.
Eg.
Angry
Sad
Frustrated
Happy
Excited

That's it!
It's that simple!

That's all your brain actually needs to process an emotion.

It's hard to do this when the brain has learned to highjack the emotion with thoughts and with the "yeah but's" and a narrative that convinces us that we need to have a reason to feel this emotion.

We waste our energy on the "WHY's".
"Why do I feel this way after my husband left?", "why do I struggle getting in the car after seeing that car accident?"
Reasoning with information is different from noticing the unnoticed emotions that lay underneath.
The unprocessed feelings/emotions are what keep your nervous system in a state of threat. It's not the lack of understanding of what happened.
You need to notice the emotions that lay underneath, not keep rehashing the thoughts/memory.

Your thoughts are on repeat because your brain is trying to tell you it has unprocessed feelings that need noticing.
Getting rid of the thoughts, requires just noticing the emotions that lay underneath, not reasoning with them.

Our brains get exhausted spending so much time trying to analyse the trauma.

Healing from trauma doesn't actually need be like that, no matter how deep, dark or heavy the trauma is.
It doesn't need to be tiring, overwhelming, scary or worrying when you have the correct strategy.

FYI...
YOU DO NOT NEED A REASON TO FEEL AN EMOTION IN ORDER TO PROCESS IT!!!

So, the next time you feel "triggered" by a stimulus (information from your external world or your thoughts), find what emotion you feel and say it 3 times in your head or out loud (eg. frustrated, frustrated, frustrated), then notice it dissipate.

Note: if the feeling doesn't soften, it's because you're tapping into the "trigger"/stimulus instead of tapping into the emotion.

That's it!
That's as hard as it should get!
If you do this correctly, you should feel lighter.

This is how to safely and correctly process your emotions in response to a "trigger".

Please get in touch with me if you would like to work one-on-one with your trauma.

Happy brain training 🧠 💪

ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕥𝕖 𝕄𝕠𝕠𝕣𝕖
Clinical & Translational Neuroscientist | Neuroscience based intervention for trauma & stress | Neuroplasticity neurotherapy | Trauma & stress neuroeducation | Frontline stress & trauma training

"Understand your brain, body and behaviour through neuroscience"
~ Charlotte Moore

✅️ If you would like neuroscience based help to work through trauma or stress, please reach out to me or book a private in-person or virtual appointment.

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𝟎𝟒𝟎𝟕𝟎𝟖𝟎𝟓𝟎𝟒

09/10/2025

Hi everyone 👋
I hope you are well!

There has been a substantial increase in mental hardship for a lot of people lately.
I am seeing an surge in su***de and emotional crises of late.

I would like to extend this invitation out to you just incase this resonates with you or someone you care about...

PLEASE reach out to me and get help with this!

I know this seems like an overwhelming and insurmountable thing. I know it possibly feels like nothing can fix it.
I CAN HELP YOU if you give yourself permission to trust the process!

I can help you learn what to do with your thoughts and feelings when they feel overwhelming.

You don't have to keep living a life of suffering or pain.

Not sure what to look for?

Things to take notice of:
- surges of emotional intensity that coincide with reckless behaviour
- increase in passifying behaviours that distract the pain (eg alcohol, drugs, work, s*x, etc)
- feeling numb
- thoughts of self harm
- thoughts about how to "end it"
- practice attempts to self harm
- practice attempts to su***de
- social withdrawal
- overwhelming feelings of self helplessness
- considering su***de as a potential solution to fix the pain

Please reach out to me if you or someone you care about would like to work through this!

Take care of yourself and the ones you love 🩷🩷

ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕥𝕖 𝕄𝕠𝕠𝕣𝕖
Clinical & Translational Neuroscientist | Neuroscience based intervention for trauma & stress | Neuroplasticity neurotherapy | Trauma & stress neuroeducation | Frontline stress & trauma training

"Understand your brain, body and behaviour through neuroscience"
~ Charlotte Moore

✅️ If you would like neuroscience based help to work through trauma or stress, please reach out to me or book a private in-person or virtual appointment.

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𝟎𝟒𝟎𝟕𝟎𝟖𝟎𝟓𝟎𝟒

03/10/2025

01/10/2025

Hippocampus (on the left) is latin for "seahorse" and aptly named so because of its resemblance to a seahorse (on the right).

This structure of the brain is involved in memory, learning and cortisol regulation and is especially sensitive to cortisol (the adaptation to stress hormone). This is what allows it to play such a fundamental role in memory and learning.

Because of it's sensitivity to cortisol, the hippocampus is highly vulnerable to excitoneurotoxicity.
Excitoneurotoxicity occurs when cortisol is elevated for prolonged periods of time (even moderate elevation).

The neurons (nerve cells) that make up the hippocampus become injured and further exposure leads to neuron death.

Because this clever little brain structure also plays a role in lowering cortisol, when the neurons within it are damaged or die, it's function of memory and learning become impaired, along with the ability to downregulate cortisol.

This is one of the major contributors to pervasive, ongoing stress and why people find it hard to stop the hightened cyclic effects of anxiety, ADHD, PTSD, depression, bipolar disorder, etc. Ultimately leading to more neurotransmitter dysregulation.
The sympathetic nervous system develops excessive tone and the body's stress signals play a huge role in shaping the brain's structure and behaviour.

Thankfully, when we put the effort into mitigating our response to stressors, new neurons in the hippocampus can develop!! 💪💪
Welcome back memory, learning and cortisol downregulation.

The hardest part is overriding what your brain and body have conditioned themselves to do in response to these stressors.
Nowadays most people learn to "cope" with their situation/environment.
Learning to "cope" is just learning to tolerate an environment that isn't working for you. Tolerance is fine when being practiced for short periods of time, but incredibly corrosive and damaging when being practiced long term.

Learn to make a change that advocates for nervous system and emotional safety.

Your brain needs to feel physically and emotionally safe to relax properly. Make sure the place where you sleep is just that...
Emotionally and physically safe!
If it's not, then your brain will stay on threat alert, keep your cortisol up and damage your hippocampus.
You'll develop behaviours that allow you to cope, and will lose behaviours that allow you to thrive in balance, peace and acceptance.

Be in charge of what environments you choose!

Choose the time you exposed yourself to hard environments and make sure you ALWAYS have a safe environment to sleep in!

Never sacrifice your safe sleep space for ANYTHING!

Happy brain training 🧠 💪

ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕥𝕖 𝕄𝕠𝕠𝕣𝕖
Clinical & Translational Neuroscientist | Neuroscience based intervention for trauma & stress | Neuroplasticity neurotherapy | Trauma & stress neuroeducation | Frontline stress & trauma training

"Understand your brain, body and behaviour through neuroscience"
~ Charlotte Moore

✅️ If you would like neuroscience based help to work through trauma or stress, please reach out to me or book a private in-person or virtual appointment.

✅️ I invite you to contact me via private message, whatsapp, phone call, or email to ask any questions or discuss how I can help you or your organisation.

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𝟎𝟒𝟎𝟕𝟎𝟖𝟎𝟓𝟎𝟒

26/09/2025

Food for thought...
How do you respond to rejection?

22/09/2025

For anyone who is interested 😊

Stress-induced glucocorticoids enhance acute inflammation by promoting the differentiation of Th17 cells

http://dlvr.it/TNC8T5

20/09/2025

⚠️Safety⚠️

This beautiful girl is Matilda. She is one of my horses and contributes hugely to this world as a teacher and a friend to everyone around her. ❤️

Sharing space with those around you, no matter the species, needs to feel both physically safe and SOCIALLY safe.

This is a NOT NEGOTIABLE in the space you sleep!

Most people understand what physical threat is and would intellectually agree that feeling physically unsafe is not an ideal scenario.

But what about social safety?
What is it?

Social safety is:
feeling understood by those around you and feeling like you understand them.

If these needs are not met overall in the space where you sleep, your fortress of solitude, then you can absolutely expect your brain, body and behaviour to adapt to living in some level of survival mode.

Eggshells, worry, anxiety, sadness, frustration, unsettled...
These are some of the persistent feelings that may exist with not feeling socially safe in your sleep space.
If these feelings are consistently and persistently present, these are your socially unsafe red flags and warrant your attention!

Addressing this can be tricky. It may require time, guidance, help and support.

Most of the time it will require a hard and uncomfortable conversation, but it's worth having if you believe you are worthy to feel safe.

Just FYI, you ARE worthy of feeling safe where you sleep, both physically and socially!
Protect them at all costs and be prepared to make hard decisions to advocate for yourself if you need to.

Happy brain training 🧠 💪

ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕥𝕖 𝕄𝕠𝕠𝕣𝕖
Clinical & Translational Neuroscientist | Neuroscience based intervention for trauma & stress | Neuroplasticity neurotherapy | Trauma & stress neuroeducation | Frontline stress & trauma training

"Understand your brain, body and behaviour through neuroscience"
~ Charlotte Moore

I invite you to contact me privately via private message, whatsapp, phone call, or email to ask any questions or discuss how I can help you or your organisation.

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𝟎𝟒𝟎𝟕𝟎𝟖𝟎𝟓𝟎𝟒

14/09/2025

🧠 How does your brain respond to long term stress?

Exposure to high levels of cortisol (stress adaptation hormone) over a prolonged period of time leads to structural (physical) adaptations in the brain for everyone.

One typical adaption within the brain to prolonged elevated cortisol levels is the reduction in the size of the hippocampus.
The hippocampus plays a crucial role in memory, learning and the downregulation cortisol levels (think of a dimmer switch that slowly turns the light down, this is what the hippocampus does to cortisol when it functions properly).

When this region of the brain is impacted by high prolonged levels of cortisol, the cells become injured and/or die which results in an overall decrease in hippocampal function.

What can this look like symptomatically?

Some symptoms can include:
🔲 memory problems
🔲 inability/difficulty regulating the nervous system
🔲 inability/difficulty learning new things (particularly if they're not interesting)
🔲 increased intolerance to emotional, social and cognitive stimulus
🔲 difficulty concentrating unless the information is loud, highly enjoyable or highly threatening
🔲 difficulty getting to sleep and/or staying asleep
🔲 hypersensitivity to sensory input
🔲 difficulties with emotional regulation

The brain MUST find a way to manage it's exposure to this hormone, because too much is neurotoxic and too little can also lead to the death of the individual.

It's a tricky and tightly regulated process that is under CONSTANT assessment and tweaking!

Having a diagnosis can assist health care providers with understanding the behavioural consequences to high prolonged cortisol, but unless this is targeted as part of the treatment plan, the insult to the brain will stay the same, even with medication.

3 VERY basic ways to help bring cortisol to a healthy range for the brain:

1️⃣ Take care of the environment you put yourself in.
Take charge of what stimulus you LET yourself be exposed to and for how long. You can remove yourself at any point (it may not be easy, you may not like it, and you may not want to do it, but if your nervous system is saying this is hard to maintain, then you have the information you need to advocate for your brain health and cortisol). YOU are in charge of this.

2️⃣ Choose your company wisely.
Take care of who you LET into your space and who YOU CHOOSE to invest in emotionally. Not all people have the capacity to be compassionate, willing and open to how you feel or what you think. Stop having expectations that people will hear you when they keep giving you evidence that they can't. YOU are in charge of your expectations AND what you do about them. What will you do with the ongoing evidence that you are not heard? The choice is YOURS!

3️⃣ Hug more and for longer.
A brilliant antidote for high cortisol is oxytocin. Find a person that is emotionally available as well as WILLING and open to how you feel, and ask for a 20-30 second hug. If you can do this daily, you'll be surprised how effective this can be for the brain and the soul.

Happy brain training 🧠 💪

ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕥𝕖 𝕄𝕠𝕠𝕣𝕖
Clinical & Translational Neuroscientist | Neuroscience based intervention for trauma & stress | Neuroplasticity neurotherapy | Trauma & stress neuroeducation | Frontline stress & trauma training

"Understand your brain, body and behaviour through neuroscience"
~ Charlotte Moore

I invite you to contact me privately via private message, whatsapp, phone call, or email to ask any questions or discuss how I can help you or your organisation.

Learn more about my services:
𝐰𝐰𝐰.𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.𝐜𝐨𝐦.𝐚𝐮
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