Irinni

08/07/2025

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Healthy Communication Strategies for Difficult Relationships

When one person is consistently difficult or self-absorbed, everyone else often ends up walking on eggshells, avoiding conflict, suppressing feelings, and treading carefully to prevent emotional explosions.

Fed up with family arguments or walking on eggshells? Try these healthy communication strategies for difficult families.

29/06/2025

📢 Today’s conversation matters.
We're talking about domestic abuse—a painful reality for many, even within our churches. 💔

The Church should never be a place where abuse is hidden, dismissed, or spiritualized. It should be a place of refuge, healing, and truth.

Here’s how we can help:

✅ Believe survivors
✅ Create safe spaces
✅ Connect with professional support
✅ Speak up from the pulpit
✅ Don’t stay silent

Let’s be the Church that reflects the heart of Jesus—**protecting the vulnerable, not protecting abuse.**

If you or someone you love is in danger, you’re not alone. There is help. 🕊️

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18/05/2025

06/05/2025

Using mini figures in a shallow tray of sand, you build a scene that feels meaningful to you. This three‑dimensional “picture” acts as a bridge between your conscious thoughts and the deeper feelings or memories you might find difficult to put into words. It can also bring hidden thoughts, emotions, and memories into view.

Discover a transformative way to explore your inner world and find relief from life’s challenges with sandplay therapy.

06/04/2025

03/01/2025

After a traumatic event or a traumatic life, survivors might have only a very fragmented narrative of what happened or no clear story at all. Many survivors say, “I don’t remember anything,” without realizing that they are remembering when they suddenly startle, feel afraid, tighten up, pull back, feel shame or self-hatred, or start to tremble.

Because trauma is remembered emotionally and somatically more than it is remembered in a narrative form that can be expressed verbally, survivors often feel confused, overwhelmed, or crazy. Without a memory in words or pictures, they do not recognize what they are feeling as memory.

Most people are unaware of all these different ways of remembering, even though they are all too familiar with the experience of suddenly getting anxious or angry for no apparent reason. When they are triggered, they do not realize that what they are experiencing is a memory. They know the warm feeling that is connected to thinking about loved ones or the pulling back or bracing that occurs when they encounter someone who feels threatening.

29/11/2024

Kaya Toast for the Soul

09/11/2024

Anxiety is a normal part of life, but when it becomes overwhelming, it’s important to take steps to manage it.

Anxiety is a normal part of life, but when it becomes overwhelming, it’s important to recognise the triggers and take steps to manage it.

09/11/2024

Prioritising self care is so important for everyone, especially if you have experienced trauma or you suffer from PTSD.

Having people around us that love us, and we love them, is so important. Often when we feel overwhelmed we push away those we love, but we need people in our lives.

Mindfulness and meditation is not all about "new age" spirituality, and it doesn't belong to any particular religious or spiritual approach. It's about being in the moment and appreciating the 'now'.

Move your body: we need to shift the 'stuckness' in our body and movement can do this. Stand, lift your head, move.

Finally, ask for help. Friends, family and professionals are here for you.