Tania Rose Arts Psychotherapist

13/05/2024

Inside the Quiet Mind: The Absence of Inner Speech

A novel study introduces "anendophasia," a condition where individuals experience little to no inner speech, challenging the assumption that internal dialogue is universal.

Researchers identified that those with minimal inner speech perform worse on verbal memory tasks and rhyming assessments, although their abilities in non-verbal cognitive tasks remain unaffected.

This research underlines the crucial role inner speech plays in specific cognitive functions and opens discussions on the variability of thought processes in humans.

18/07/2023

"According to research, controlled breathing stimulates the nervous and cardiovascular systems, potentially altering both physical and mental health states. By consciously slowing our breathing, we can stimulate the ‘rest and digest’ response managed by the parasympathetic nervous system."

Breathing, an autonomous function, also possesses a feature unique to a few bodily activities: we can control it.

22/04/2023

I hour meditation sessions held on Monday evenings at 259 Riley St Surry Hills NSW (Australia)- studio 1: with psychotherapist Tania Rose.
VENUE: 1/259 Riley St Surry Hills NSW Australia
TIMES: Monday evenings at 6pm, 7.30pm and 9pm May-Sept 2023

Bring some comfortable clothing and come and relax in a calm and soothing environment. Each meditation session is unique, drawing from evidence-based mindfulness and meditation practices. This space is neurodiversity-affirming and queer-affirming.

I hour meditation sessions held on Monday evenings at 259 Riley St Surry Hills NSW (Australia)- studio 1: with psychotherapist Tania Rose. VENUE: 1/259 Riley St Surry Hills NSW Australia TIMES: Monday evenings at 6pm, 7.30pm and 9pm Bring some comfortable clothing and come and relax in a calm and so...

22/04/2023

I hour meditation sessions held on Monday evenings at 259 Riley St Surry Hills NSW (Australia)- studio 1: with psychotherapist Tania Rose.
VENUE: 1/259 Riley St Surry Hills NSW Australia
TIMES: Monday evenings at 6pm, 7.30pm and 9pm May-Sept 2023

Bring some comfortable clothing and come and relax in a calm and soothing environment. Each meditation session is unique, drawing from evidence-based mindfulness and meditation practices. This space is neurodiversity-affirming and queer-affirming. Follow the link for bookings:

I hour meditation sessions held on Monday evenings at 259 Riley St Surry Hills NSW (Australia)- studio 1: with psychotherapist Tania Rose. VENUE: 1/259 Riley St Surry Hills NSW Australia TIMES: Monday evenings at 6pm, 7.30pm and 9pm Bring some comfortable clothing and come and relax in a calm and so...

21/04/2023

Online & live mindfulness sessions held weekly on Tuesday mornings 9am-9.30am (AEST) May-Sept 2023. Book for as many sessions as you wish. Each ticket is valid for one 30min session of mindfulness practice. Perfect for busy people, or anyone keen to explore what mindfulness practices are. Great for those wanting to kickstart their day with positivity and hope.

Find yourself a comfortable place and bring to the session blank paper and coloured drawing tools as (ie, crayons, pencils, markers, pastels, etc).
These sessions are experiential (you will be participating in mindfulness practices) but not interactive (you won't be asked to share your experiences).

Online & live mindfulness sessions held weekly on Tuesday mornings 9am-9.30am (AEST) May-Sept 2023. Book for as many sessions as you wish. Each ticket is valid for one 30min session of mindfulness practice. Perfect for busy people, or anyone keen to explore what mindfulness practices are. Great....

16/04/2023

The woman who can literally smell Parkinson's disease, and who is instrumental in helping develop new diagnostic tools

In this talk, Joy Milne recounts the story of her incredible life: while working as an NHS nurse in Scotland, she discovered she had a true superpower. She d...

05/03/2023

Being neurodivergent can be challenging, and having accommodations can make a huge difference in an ND person's capacity to deal with daily experiences. Accommodations as well as support and understanding are very important

I tried to capture visually the difference that accommodations can make. When we go through our days, lots of niggly things that seem small can build up and mean that one more demand can result in overwhelm. With accommodations, things are still there in the background but supports are in place and so the same demand won't have the same impact.

This is highly simplified and of course on different days different factors can have more or less of an impact, but hopefully you find it useful.



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Image description: a 3 panel comic with a brown background. The heading reads ‘Accommodations make a difference’, below the heading text says ‘The ability to do a task can be impacted by many factors. On any given day, the combination that results in overload can be different.
Simple accommodations can increase someone's enjoyment of, or capacity and ability to do, a task.’ The first panel has a scale from 0-100 with different coloured boxes from green at the bottom to red at the top, the boxes in ascending order are: tight clothes, bright lights, multiple noise sources, hunger, strong perfume, didn’t sleep well, need a break, don’t understand task, high pain levels. The top box sits on top about to fill up the scale to 100 – the box says ‘someone asks a question.’ Above this text says: One more task demand or something unexpected could result in overwhelm/ meltdown for this person. Middle panel: a bulleted list says ‘What if the same person has: Taken a break, Had a snack recently, Can wear comfy clothes to work, Has been given clear task demands, Colleagues don't wear strong perfume, Can wear noise cancelling headphones’. Below this are some of the coloured boxes from the first panel all smaller with a spiky circle that says ‘these factors now have less impact.’ Third panel: text at the top says ‘With accommodations in place, the same demand, 'someone asking a question', doesn't have the same impact.’ This is the difference simple accommodations can make. There is the 0-100 scale but now only 3 boxes (bright lights, didn’t sleep well, high pain levels) are filled in, a yellow box (someone asks a question) fits on top and doesn’t cause overwhelm – this is the difference simple accommodations can make.

20/01/2023

Stimming can be different for every neurodivergent person. Here is a non exhaustive list of what stimming can look like.

[image description: text across a multi colored and bright background.
At center is a white box that reads:
“What stimming can look like (not exhaustive):
Humming, snapping fingers repeatedly, pacing,
whistling, repetitive blinking, rocking, picking
joint-cracking, staring off into space, tapping your pencil, grinding teeth,
chewing on inedible items, walking on tiptoe, making sounds,
complex body movements, punching objects, hair twirling
jumping, hand-flapping, biting the inside of the mouth
sniffing or licking objects, spinning, nail-biting,
tapping, fidgeting, head-banging, repeating words or phrases.
Image credit: Mollys ADHD mayhem ]

What stimming can look like (not exhaustive):

Humming, snapping fingers repeatedly, pacing, whistling, repetitive blinking, rocking, picking, joint-cracking, staring off into space, tapping your pencil, grinding teeth, chewing on inedible items, walking on tiptoe, making sounds, complex body movements, punching objects, jumping, hand-flapping, sniffing or licking objects, spinning, nail-biting, tapping, fidgeting, head-banging, repeating words or phrases.
Image credit: Mollys ADHD mayhem

18/12/2022

Seeking expressions of interest from neurodivergent 18+ participants in Sydney for workshops aimed at exploring neurodivergent themes through movement, gesture and dance.
Program run by Tania Rose
(Arts Psychotherapist and co-founder of
Restless Dance Theatre)

To register your interest and for more information, contact Tania at
taniarose@taniarose.net

11/11/2022

"A guided mindfulness-based stress reduction program was as effective as use of the gold-standard drug—the common antidepressant drug escitalopram—for patients with anxiety disorders, according to results of a first-of-its-kind, randomized clinical trial led by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center"

Study reveals mindfulness-based stress reduction methods proved to be as effective as antidepressants for relieving symptoms for those with anxiety disorders.

03/09/2022

A new study sheds light on why humans often use hand movements while talking. Researchers report rhythmic hand gestures affect rib cage movements, leading to a change in lung volume and ultimately aspects of the voice. Infants connect early vocal babbling with hand gestures, demonstrating an early c...