Sophia Markovtzev - Psychotherapy & Counselling

06/03/2025

15/07/2023

I too have known loneliness.
I too have known what it is to feel
misunderstood,
rejected and suddenly
not at all beautiful.
Oh, Mother Earth, your comfort is great, your arms never withhold.
It saved my life to know this.
Your rivers flowing, your roses opening in the morning.
Oh, motions of tenderness!🌹

"Oh, mother earth,
your comfort is great, your arms never withhold.
It has saved my life to know this."

Thank you reader Leah for sharing this beautiful photo of "Loneliness."

20/04/2023

ℹ️🌿 COMPLEX PTSD: HOW TO SHARE WITH THOSE WHO DON'T HAVE IT OR DON'T GET IT

A lot of psychology-related terms have worked their way into everyday usage lately. One common example is “trauma.” Of course, there are some true benefits to this growing awareness. But, in addition, it’s easy to have misinterpretations. From movies or even social media posts, many people have a very skewed perception of what “trauma” means.

This misunderstanding can inadvertently invalidate many trauma sufferers. We expect a trauma survivor to have endured a particular kind of event. In reality, trauma is in the eye of the beholder and it can occur slowly over time. This is precisely how Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder happens.

https://michaelgquirke.com/complex-ptsd-how-to-share-with-those-who-dont-have-it-or-dont-get-it/

11/03/2023

If you imagine someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, then you get an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.

Such a man has saddled himself with new problems and conflicts. He has become a serious problem to himself, as he is now unable to say that they do this or that, or that they are wrong, and they must be fought against...

Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow he has done something real for the world.

He has succeeded in shouldering at least an infinitesimal part of the gigantic, unsolved social problems of our day.

~Carl Jung

Image | Concept Art World. Mood.
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05/02/2023

"All men have Stars, but they
are not the same things for
different people.

For some, who are travelers,
the Stars are guides. For
others they are no more than
little lights in the sky. For
others, who are scholars,
they are problems. But all
these Stars are silent.

You-You alone will have
Stars as no one else has them.
In one of the Stars I shall
be Living. In one of them
I shall be Laughing.

And so it will be as if all the
Stars will be laughing when you
look at the sky at night. You,
only you, will have Stars that
can laugh!

And when your sorrow is
comforted (time soothes all
sorrows) you will be content
that you have known me.

You will always be my friend.
You will want to laugh with me.
And you will sometimes open
your window, so, for that
pleasure.
✨
It will be as if, in place of the
Stars, I had given you a great
number of little bells that knew
how to laugh."

🌠 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
The Little Prince

11/01/2023

When we are feeling stressed, stimulating the vague nerve activates the 'rest and digest' response in your whole body.

06/08/2022

So much of misbehaviour (but not all of course) is due to the brain being hijacked by their amygdala (the fear detector of the brain) which causes them to go into a stress response of fight-flight-freeze-collapse-- this is about self-preservation and protection. A brain trying to protect itself is not a brain that is ready to learn. It is a brain that needs connection and security before it's ready to make a different choice.