Purple Couch Psychology

02/10/2021

12/16/2020

good reminder of the many forms of anxiety...

Trauma responses don’t always look the same for everyone.

09/07/2020

Very worth reading for everyone, but especially those healing from developmental trauma.

08/31/2020

08/30/2020

Oh, you’re drowning? Focus on the positive in the situation.

07/18/2020

Don’t be a red shirt.

07/01/2020

When a pregnant woman experiences trauma, its effects can sometimes impact her child – even in utero.

So how does this happen?

Well, we created an infographic you can use with clients to help them visualize how trauma can get passed on by caregivers.

If you’d like to print our infographics you can check them all out here: https://www.nicabm.com/category/group-3/infographic/

05/19/2020

If you’re reading this, it might be because it’s a last resort. For two months, your mind has been all over the place, unable to focus on anything other than moving to different rooms in your house to carry out required human functions. You might be starting this article again, having tried it e...

05/19/2020

Remember this when you feel like you’re not enough. 📷

04/26/2020

Borrowed from a friend-thanks Ken Lima-Coelho
Read this.

To survive quarantine, you need to change your metrics

04/18/2020

This!
📷 Maria Karaiskos

04/17/2020

04/12/2020

the big questions

EASTER REPOST.

04/07/2020

Agreed. Tv time is all the time during a pandemic. New rule.

03/31/2020

This is a comforting reminder. Everyone is grieving.

Normal human responses to a global pandemic that do not need to be pathologized or treated as abnormal:

• Food and eating challenges & difficulties

• Resurgence of compulsive or addictive behaviours

• Obsessive or instrusive thoughts, memories or fears

• Generalised fear, anxiety, panic & overwhelm

• Depression, dissociation, shutdown, freeze, hopelessness

• Feelings of abandonment or loneliness or isolation

• Sense of loss of control or powerlessness. Feeling confused

• Anxiety around money, shelter, food, and other survival needs

• Past traumas being triggered, activated or re-experienced

• Health anxiety heightened (about Covid19 and otherwise)

• Feeling unheard or unseen amidst the flood of stories

• Feeling like existing chronic needs are being ignored

• Thoughts and feelings about death and dying

• New and old grief surfacing

• Feelings of anger, irritation and frustration

• Caring for everyone to own detriment. Compassion fatigue

• Feeling exhausted, fatigued, unmotivated, lethargic

• Hyper-focus, surges of energy, keeping 'doing' to distract

• Immune system depleted, other illnesses starting, chronic flares

(list not exhaustive)

AND if you do need support with any of it, that's okay too.

Sarah Mariann Martland

・・・

03/25/2020

For all the parents I spoke to last week....

It's all okay! ❤️