Steve Peck Psychotherapy

12/07/2019

Stories impart new learnings, new patterns of being, while flying under radars of the emotional or rational brain.

About Kashfi Khan and Ezra Hewing Kashfi Khan works with children who speak English as an additional language (EAL) aged 5 to11 years old at Hounslow Town Primary School, London. Ezra Hewing is Head of Education at the mental health charity, Suffolk Mind. In our work, we’ve found that introducing ...

11/07/2019

Sharing in others' good news and achievements is an important way of creating connection and there's an optimal way of doing it.

Active-constructive responding is a set of behaviours that promote intimacy and trust. Responding to a child's good news in this way builds the relationship

28/06/2019

The brain evolved so that we could move.
Vigorous movement promotes the release of feel good hormones, and balances out stress hormones.
So much so that 20 minutes, three times a week has the same effect as antidepressants for many people.

23/06/2019

It's important to build the skills that help us to be calm when emotions aren't serving us.
First develop them in ourselves and then help those who are important to us to self soothe and manage emotional arousal.

When we tell children who are angry, nervous or over-excited to calm down, this rarely helps. Usually, they get even more upset. Why is that? What can we do ...

13/06/2019

"...research shows that there’s no “too much” when it comes to holding and cuddling newborns."

What's good for the gosling is good for the goose and gander!
Be generous with those 20 second hugs for everyone and release the oxytocin that helps us to feel safe and calm.

Just try not to get emotional as we tell you about this incredibly rewarding volunteer gig: It’s like being a grandma or auntie to some really special babies fighting for their lives in hospitals across the country. These babies are addicted to drugs, and it turns out that snuggles from some very

08/06/2019

A great article about applying The Human Givens Approach practically.

"...the Human Givens framework is a simple organising idea, in line with scientific discoveries about the mind/body system, which aims to move away from ideologies and encompass effective techniques, methods and interventions from other therapeutic traditions."

07/06/2019

If we actually look into the facts, it seems that young people today are not so narcissistic after all. Be nice to young people...

"Dr. Grubbs hopes that they will at least encourage people to be more thoughtful about being so quick to label broad groups in the first place.

“Maybe being a little more cautious and kind could be one implication,”"

New research found that those aged 18 to 25 believe theirs is the most narcissistic and entitled living generation. But that doesn’t make it true.

06/06/2019

"...participants are more willing to see their Group “win,” rather than have outcomes where all people end up better overall"

Awareness of this redundant evolutionary quirk means that we may cut it adrift and develop more effectively as a social species.

Studies show that thinking of ourselves in terms of groups automatically leads to a kind of irrational group favoritism, which ends up dividing society, instead of bringing us together.