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Silver-Linings-Therapy Canse Karatas (MBACP) - Founder & Lead Therapist

Feel stuck, overwhelmed, burned out and carrying trauma?

Therapy helps you 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 & 𝐄𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞.

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Those protective strategies almost always create new material for shame though. Avoidance becomes regret. Numbing become...
13/01/2026

Those protective strategies almost always create new material for shame though. Avoidance becomes regret. Numbing becomes dependency. Silence becomes disconnection. Performance becomes exhaustion. The mind then points to these consequences as evidence. See? You really are broken. Confirmstiin bias. The original hurt fades into the background while the secondary shame, shame about how we handled the shame or shame about shame takes over.

What makes shame so powerful is its demand for secrecy. It convinces us that being seen will be the worst thing in the world even though isolation is the very condition that allows it to grow unchecked. In the dark shame sounds like truth. It collapses complexity into a single verdict and repeats it until the nervous system mistakes familiarity for fact.

Shame feeds shame by shrinking you. The smaller we make ourselves the fewer resources we have to regulate. Breaking the cycle doesn’t come from self-improvement or moral correction but from restoring through compassion and the radical act of staying present with ourselves without verdict.

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05/01/2026

Here at Silver Linings, we believe therapy isn’t a luxury it's necessary to support you in the difficulties of life and helping you grow. Through our Trainee project we're able to provide an affordable fixed fee to make it more accessible as we know everyone deserves help!

Check out the website to get started now 👇 www.silverliningscounsellingpsychotherapy.com/discounted

Deep down though, you know the truth! You know when you’re choosing comfort over growth. You know when peace is actually...
30/12/2025

Deep down though, you know the truth!

You know when you’re choosing comfort over growth. You know when peace is actually avoidance dressed in softer wording. You know when your relationship is off. You feel it in those quiet moments when the inner voice starts to whisper and then scream that there is more. More capacity. More courage. More life waiting beyond what you already know.

Yet you stay.

You stay small because small feels safe. You replay old narratives because they are familiar even if they hurt. Trauma becomes a script instead of a chapter. Fear convinces you that risk equals loss and that growth equals danger. So you don’t push. You don’t stretch. You don’t ask yourself the harder questions. You tell yourself 'this is just who I am' when really it’s who you learned to be to survive.

And survival can become a cage.

The truth is comfort doesn’t always mean alignment. Safety doesn’t always mean truth. Sometimes it means stagnation. Sometimes it means slowly betraying the parts of you that are begging to be expressed. Maybe even never fully experiencing real love. Those parts don’t disappear they wait. They ache. They remind you in moments of restlessness, envy, longing or quiet grief.

Important to acknowledge growth isn’t about being reckless. It’s about honest ones. It’s about looking at the fear without letting it drive. It’s about choosing to learn instead of repeating. To evolve instead of hide. To let your past inform you yet not imprison you.

At some point staying the same becomes a more painful rut than the risk of change and that’s usually when the real journey begins. Because when you do see it you can't unsee!

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29/12/2025

People often ask why the past creeps up when things stop or even when life starts to get easier their mind seems stuck back there. This is due to many reasons of at the time there may be lots of things to distract or you may have to prioritise surviving. Your mind will always bring things back up to process though.

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The truth is fear is not the boss of you. It never was. It feels powerful because you’ve been listening to it instead of...
29/12/2025

The truth is fear is not the boss of you. It never was. It feels powerful because you’ve been listening to it instead of moving through it. The moment you take action even a small tiny step you disrupt its authority. Action shrinks fear. Motion reminds you of your strength and starts momentum.

Being brave doesn’t mean being fearless. It means choosing to take the first step while your mind is still racing. It means saying the hard thing, starting before you’re ready, showing up imperfectly and trusting yourself enough to keep trying. Courage is built in real time not in fantasy!

Today...choose one fear. Not all of them just one. Walk straight through it instead of around it. Let discomfort push you forward instead of holding you back. On the other side of fear is proof that you can handle more than you think, proof that you are capable of becoming the person you’ve been waiting for.

You don’t need a hero to save you. You need to remember that you are becoming one, every time you choose action over avoidance.

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23/12/2025

It's been a very intense month and 2025 has been rough for a lot of people. We are now closed for the rest of this week and have a limited schedule next week but back to normal in the New Year.

From the bottom of our hearts thank you for trusting us to support you. We value every single client and for the ones recommending us to others too. It really does mean the world because we genuinely love what we do. We are here ready to help in 2026 and we hope the rest of this year is kind to you.

Warm Wishes, Silver Linings Team 💜

Yet this is only one side of the truth. Running alongside suffering is love. Connection does not cancel pain but it give...
22/12/2025

Yet this is only one side of the truth. Running alongside suffering is love. Connection does not cancel pain but it gives it shape and meaning. We reach for one another not because life is easy but because it is hard. The same vulnerability that allows us to be wounded is what allows us to be known. To love is to risk suffering and to suffer is evidence that we have loved.

There is a deep honesty in this duality. Joy feels sharp because it is temporary. Kindness matters because nothing is guaranteed. In the face of inevitable loss presence becomes sacred. A shared laugh, a quiet understanding, a hand held in silence...these are not small things. They are acts of resistance against despair.

Life breaks us open but in the opening we find each other and that is enough reason to keep going.

17/12/2025

In a world so practically connected why are humans feeling so spiritually disconnected from the bigger things in life? Society is changing drastically and some of these things are impacting people significantly with regard to a loss of community and direction. There are so many people living on autopilot surviving.

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When emotions are constantly filtered through thought their essence can slip away. Love becomes a concept, sadness a lec...
17/12/2025

When emotions are constantly filtered through thought their essence can slip away. Love becomes a concept, sadness a lecture rather than a quiet surrender and fear a formula or holds you back from even going there. Intellectualizing allows us to appear composed, rational even regulated but it risks leaving the soul untouched, the heart unheard.

There’s power in naming and understanding emotions yes, but equally profound is the courage to feel them without making sense of them. To sit with discomfort without dissecting it. True emotional depth is not in knowing everything about what we feel it is in letting the feeling exist in its pure, unexamined form. Not in a chaos outward version where you react to everything but in a silent version that you let it come and flow naturally through you.

Perhaps the greatest irony of intellectualizing emotions is that the more we try to master them the more they teach us that some truths cannot be put into words. The mind may provide structure but the heart teaches resonance. Sometimes, the only way to truly understand a feeling is to recognise and accept that humans are complex and by no means perfect then stop trying to understand it at all.

We hope if you need to hear this it reaches you today and it lands!
16/12/2025

We hope if you need to hear this it reaches you today and it lands!

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