The Psych Atelier

20/10/2025

becoming your own safe place is power. 💫

19/10/2025

Not sure why this one spoke to me today. I was contemplating drawing a new doodle but this one popped up and I felt like posting it. Enjoy! May you see all the ways gold is being built within you even through the hard times.

19/10/2025

17/10/2025

Put yourself first and make self care a sacred act of love. Prioritize your peace, protect your energy and give yourself permission to rest without apology. Care for your body tenderly, feed your mind with calm and surround your soul with softness. Let every small routine become a quiet celebration of you and a reminder that your well being is not a luxury it is a necessity.🧡

07/10/2025

If you have a friend, relative or partner who often speaks before they think, acts on a whim, flakes on plans and generally seems to follow their heart – it might be because of their disinhibition. Learning more about this little-known personality trait could help you better understand them, or even yourself. Read more here: https://psyche.co/ideas/the-trait-that-makes-some-people-so-frustrating-and-alluring

07/10/2025

October is , a time to reflect on what we know about ADHD, especially in adults. This Essay encourages us to expand how we recognise the many faces of this condition. https://aeon.co/essays/adult-adhd-is-becoming-more-inclusive-but-not-overdiagnosed

02/10/2025

30/09/2025

𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 is 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵, and 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗮𝘆 on 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟬𝘁𝗵 focuses on a theme we need to address: "𝘼𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨 – 𝙈𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙣 𝘾𝙖𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙀𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙨."

This is about recognizing that when catastrophes and emergencies happen, the invisible wounds—the trauma, the fear, the crushing anxiety—are just as real as the physical damage. And yet, the help for these wounds is often missing.

We are talking about a human right: the right to feel safe, supported, and to have a lifeline when your world has been turned upside down. Mental health care should not be a luxury item you scramble for after a crisis; it must be a core part of the response.

So, how do we move beyond just acknowledging this?

𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: We need to push our community leaders and global organizations to build mental health support into every disaster relief plan—not as an afterthought, but as a necessary infrastructure.

𝗕𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲: If you know of a local service that provides trauma support, share it widely. Become a resource connector in your own network.

𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘆: When we hear news of a crisis, let's remember the invisible suffering. Our empathy fuels the call for action.

This month, let's commit to making sure that the promise of support is real and immediate for everyone, everywhere. Let's make "access to services" a reality, not just a theme.

Who’s ready to amplify this message and help build a more compassionate response system?

30/09/2025

30/09/2025

Two things -

One, there is a lot of grief in this process. If this is hard to read, I understand. To heal will mean allowing yourself to feel sad & angry about the many times you weren’t met where you needed to be met.

Two, other people can help, but they can't do the deep inner work for you.

Our caregiver’s job is to show us how to be in the world. They’re supposed to keep us safe and teach us that we’re inherently worthy & valuable just as we are, how to regulate ourselves, how to comfort ourselves, how to advocate for ourselves, how to relate to others.

They’re supposed to be teaching us throughout childhood how to meet our most important human needs, and they create the first and biggest blueprint for our beliefs about who we are in the world.
They're teaching us how to relate to & think about ourselves.

And if they don’t meet those needs or create a crappy blueprint, and that window of development & influence passes and you move into adulthood, no other outside adult is going to be able to meet those needs for you in quite the same way.

After that, it becomes your job. And it’s not an easy one.

Other people can help us, love us, see us, and support us, but they cannot do this deeper inner work of feeling our feelings and learning how to relate to ourselves differently.
We have to do that.

And it IS possible. It is so very possible.

And doing that deep inside work is what helps you mature emotionally, and is what allows your external behaviors and preferences to shift over time. You start choosing differently, and showing up with more grounding and less reactivity.

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29/09/2025

Setting boundaries around what interventions can and cannot be evaluated requires that “psychological treatment” be clearly defined. A recent Editor's Choice article in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice describes the work of a task force, commissioned by the Society of Clinical Psychology, Division 12 of APA, to define this term. Continue reading to learn about the proposed definition and its rationale: https://bit.ly/3K6UTOp