Debra Eng, LCSW, PLLC

12/11/2024

Self-care supports your nervous system by promoting regulation, reducing stress, and fostering a sense of safety and balance in your body and mind.
As 2025 begins, let's spend some time together in community, learning and practicing different ways to care for ourselves and our nervous system health.
Registration is now open for our series of six FREE community events, "A New Year’s Journey of Self-Care," featuring practices and presentations with Deb Dana, Arielle Schwartz, Sandra Hinojosa, Kristen Toth, Amber Gray, and Janne Wind throughout January and February 2025! 🤍
Find event details and links to register at polyvagal.org/events

*All live online sessions will be recorded. If you are unable to join us live in real time, your registration ensures that you will receive a copy of the recording by email within 48 hours of the live event.

11/05/2024

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01/17/2024

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Thank you for your beautiful work sharing the research behind the effects self-compassion has on the brain! 🧠💪🏽✨

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01/17/2024

The foundational aspects of emotional agility address “going to” your thoughts, emotions, and values, and being open to what they have to tell you.

This entails asking questions like “How are you feeling?” and “How are your thoughts and emotions impacting you?”

With that base of self-knowledge, you can then graduate to skills that center on “going through” or moving on—the stage in which you apply the insights gained from your emotions.

It involves questions like “Which action would be values aligned?” and “What are some options for dealing with this emotion?”

01/09/2024

Herbs, supplements, and other natural remedies promote well-being — yet separating help from hype can be challenging. Follow this expert guidance.

01/09/2024

I specialize in working with caregivers.

Whether you’re in a position of caregiving for loved ones or in an industry in which it’s your job to do so, caring for others can take an invisible toll on one’s health. It’s made even more challenging by the lack or absence of societal systems to support caregivers. Laura van Dernoot Lipsk...

01/09/2024

When we're going through a difficult time, we're frequently told to just "keep on smiling."

But so-called negative emotions are normal. This is a fundamental fact. We are wired to feel negative at times.

Putting pressure on yourself or others to suppress "negative" emotions is unhelpful and unkind. Instead, ask yourself what you can learn from your emotion in the moment, and breathe into the knowledge that it will eventually pass.

11/15/2022

Here is your reminder to be kind to yourself and invitation to practice it as often as you can. 💕

The Power of Being King to Yourself 🙏🏽

• More and more research is showing that self-compassion is a key to living a h life.
• Self-compassion is a source of strength and resilience

The 3 Elements of Self-Compassion:
1️⃣ Self Kindness: we are as caring towards ourselves as we are to others
2️⃣ Recognizing Our Common Humanity: When we understand that we are not alone in our pain through a moment of connection with others and that it is a part of the shared human experience
3️⃣ Mindfulness: Being open to the reality of the present moment [yes, you are here], acknowledging our suffering without exaggerating it

Graphic created by the amazing Johnine Byrne from See Your Words 🙏🏽

11/15/2022

So true.

As much as we want to, we cannot control every situation.

There is no value in struggling to deny or suppress feelings of anxiety, anger, hopelessness, or grief. This only makes us feel worse.

By showing up to a difficult situation and accepting it, we free ourselves to move beyond it. Acceptance is the prerequisite for positive change.

09/22/2022

09/22/2022

Your feelings have important messages for you. Once you stop ignoring them, you can own them, move through them, and feel a sense of ease.

09/16/2022

Looking forward to this!

FREE LIVE EVENT! | Healing the Wounds of Trauma with Gabor Maté, MD

09/16/2022

💯 We have to look at the whole person. This is no compartmentalization.

The current false dichotomy holds back research and stigmatises patients

09/01/2022

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09/01/2022

08/26/2022

Mental Health and safety are interconnected. We'd love to know how you hold space for safety within your communities. Let us know what safety means to you in the comments below!