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19/01/2023

☺️😔🤪😫😳🫣🫠😵🥴
We can’t choose what to feel, feelings just are. Feelings can help us inform our thinking and thinking ultimately informs or behavior. When you jump from feelings into behavior it comes out impulsive and when we avoid feeling and stay on thinking it results in paralyzing behavior and crippled feelings .

13/10/2022

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Three out of five women have experienced a form or sexual aggression. Look around , that’s about 60% of sisters.
I was listing to a brilliant podcast today from Dr.Gabor Maté in which he spoke about how ANGER is one the pillars of growth and wholesome. Not toxic rage but .
Why? Because anger allow us to set boundaries, to say NO ❌. Saying no is a prime goal of our psychological make-up.
So I kept thinking … Women 👩🏻‍🦰👩🏽👱🏻‍♀️👩🏻‍🦳👵🏻🧑🏽‍🦳🧕🏼 are paralyzed during abuse because we are conditioned to NOT get ANGRY. After all, getting angry makes us a “bitch”, “difficult”, “undesirable” and of course “crazy”.
And there it is, a recipe for disaster.
Today, a women will be molested because she didn’t know how to scream, call out that man and walk away because she’s been told her entire life, she needs to be nice. 💔

12/10/2022

🫵🏻 Denial as comforting as it might feel temporarily will rotten your best intended efforts to be your best self 🌩️. Looking at yourself in the mirror 🪞 is as confronting as it can be life-changing.
In the company of a well-trained therapist, you can rest assure that facing the music 🎼 can be the first day of the rest of your best life.

11/10/2022

Fallacy of affirming 🔴
Affirming that people have chaotic lives because they can’t get their 💩 together and depositing all responsibility in their “lack of” is a mistake.
We need to look into the context of people’s life to fully understand what might be going on underneath.
🧬 Life does not have to be chaotic unless that is all you know.
🧸 Is very possible you’re trying your best and this is how “your best” looks like.
🎭 If you’re battling trauma, severe anxiety or debilitating depression, the last thing on your mind is food prep or getting 10,000 steps a day 🫠

Before embarking on your journey of good habits, have a compassionate conversation with yourself and how you got here in the first place 🤍

10/10/2022

THE 5:1 ratio rule ‼️
We people need 5 positives interactions for every 1 negative interaction to keep a healthy relationship safe and sound.

09/10/2022

Your dearest therapist is one year older today 🎈 .
A moment to reflect on happiness and the endless pursuit of joy . Persistent throughout my life since I can remember, never quite ready to stop the carrusel 🎠 type of person. Hopefully in the years to come maturity and wisdom will do their part as I try to become more comfortable with the paradoxical imperfect truth about happiness and hurt. 🤍
As for today, let’s keep the carrusel spinning and the bubbles flowing shall’ we !
🎠🎈🎠🎈🎠🎈🎠🎈🎠🎈🎠🎈🎠🎈🎠🎈🥂

09/10/2022

🌬️💨🐄
In what areas do your life do you feel out to control?
Have you always felt powerless or defeated 😔 when it comes to this issues?
What has happened when you’ve asked for help?
What is the worse it can happen if you ask for help?
Huge calf steps

08/10/2022

“From Harry Potter I learned that they, who left a scar, must not be named”. 💛❤️

08/10/2022

5️⃣ with Comfort zone
1️⃣ Is rigid by definition, with a tendency to shrink as opposed to expand.
2️⃣ Overtime if becomes de ecosystem for anxiety to grow wild
3️⃣ It bother those around you more than it might bother you, which put stress in your relationships
4️⃣ It appears to guarantee safety in the short term but ultimately build up into internal chaos.
5️⃣ It festers envy towards those who seemly practice expansion and growth. Envy is a corrosive feeling.

07/10/2022

🍷🍻🍸 A friendly reminder of enjoying your poison of choice responsibly. It’s all about quantity and context . How much, when, where and with whom.

07/10/2022

☝🏻 101 🔴🟡🟢

06/10/2022

“Show me a man who can sit with a woman in real fear and vulnerability and just hear her struggle without trying to fix it or give advice, and I'll show you a man who's comfortable with his own vulnerability and doesn't derive his power from being Oz, the all-knowing and all-powerful”. - Brené Brown.

06/10/2022

People think 🧐 therapists listen to problems all day 🤷‍♀️. We actually see through people’s problems people all day 🙋‍♀️⭐️.
🎵 let it shine, let it shine , leeet it shine ✨🎵

05/10/2022

101 🦠 : Mistakes are recurrent. 69% of couples will fight over the same issues throughout their relationship** 🥊 Toxic 🦠 is the ill intended act of apologizing to dismiss and/or deescalate an argument, knowing that is unlikely the behavior in question will ever stop.

** Based on research from the Gottman Institute, Seattle .

04/10/2022

☝🏻matter, unless you’re “expecting” perfection in which case better explore whether that’s your own way to avoid intimacy all together as nobody will ever “be right enough” to guarantee happiness versus heartbreak 💔.
No expectations whatsoever are the opposite side of the spectrum. You risk serious heart injuries by lowering your bar out of fear of accepting inevitable rejection.

23/09/2022

Bad day? Reward yourself . Imagine you’re a child 👧🏻 who’s coming to you upset about having a bad day. Would you tell that child to ? I hope the answer to that is no… A little something can go a long way.
I recommend lighting a candle and eating spaghetti 🍝 Bolognese. It works every time. I normally don’t reward myself with tacos, because tacos go with margaritas and that’s the slippery slope of bad habits and rewards 🤣.

22/09/2022

Parents of teenagers. We see you 💚. I’m sure you miss they days when you could make it all better by given you child a cookie. I’m sure you miss the affection, you basically are grieving a stage in your child’s life.
I don’t agree with the plain statement that adolescents are just difficult. They are claiming they independence without been adults yet, and that can be seriously challenging for parents. But like any other stage in life, this will pass. You’ll get you kid back, in the form of an adult, and hopefully you’ll have a friend in them too.
Nurturing the adolescent years of your child’s life will help you preserve your relationship with them in the future.

21/09/2022

Let’s talk about a SOFT START. The way we approach a conversation in the first few minutes determine whether it will be productive or not. When we begin to discuss something, either labeled as mundane or important, HOW we deliver those first words matter A LOT.
Often my clients tell me that it feel like they can say what’s on their mind. My answer is YES, you can also say what’s on your mind, I hope you do. But say it nicely.

Example: Hey. 😤 Why is it that you never make me coffee.
Try : I would love if you make an effort to do something nice for me in the mornings, like making me coffee. That would make me very happy.

20/09/2022

Let’s talk about dating a . And braise for impact because this is 🤍.

I fully acknowledge we have to equate potential, in ourselves and when meeting new prospects. But if somebody is either showing you who they are consistently and it doesn’t match the potencial you see in them, or they are telling who they really are and what they feel and that doesn’t match the potential you want to see in them. They you my friend, are dating your ideal of who you want them to be, not who they are 💔.

18/09/2022

There is no such thing as an ☝🏻. If you are indeed overly emotional about something that seems out of proportion, then you’ve been triggered 🤯.
Understanding what trigger us and why, is key 🔑 to regulate our behavior.

In simple terms:

You are allowed to feel what you feel, in fact, you can’t help it. If is a big deal for you, there’s a reason to that… Now BEHAVIOR, is different, that you can regulate.
Not because you felt this enormous feeling, you’re going to throw a gr***de at your life! Let along at an other person . ❌ 💣

18/09/2022

Feeling 😞 ❓

Too young to know what you’re doing
Too old to learn something new
Too pretty to be taken seriously
Too handsome to trust
Too charming to be smart
Too serious to be approachable
Too female to be respected
Too male to be acceptable
Too gay to blend
Too straight to represent diversity
Too quite to make an impact
Too laugh to be a team player

Shock them. Boom 💥

18/09/2022

No parent is perfect. Parents are people and people who try their very best are still imperfect 💛. But what if you really had a horrible parent? In a society where the doctrine is “to love and respect your parent no matter what” … How do you validate your experience? 🤍

17/09/2022

Myth : Alcohol 🥃 speaks the truth ❌❌ False.
What alcohol does , it that inhibits our filters and it impairs (emphasis in that word) our judgement. It’s harder to evaluate if what we’re saying is fair, valid and or kind. It’s also hard to evaluate to whom are we saying those things to and whether is appropriate, relevant or constructive.

Next time you think you can write in stone what somebody said while their were under the influence , you might want to add a pinch of salt 🧂 to it.

15/09/2022

Can we be like a 🥔? What does “wearing different hats 🎩 🧢 👒” even mean?

I personally found it very challenging to not be my last at all times 🤣.

I have learned tho, that incorporating certain traits at different times is without a doubt , an amazing soft skill.
Being exactly who you are and highlighting only certain qualities at specific times are not mutually exclusive portraits of yourself.

Just like a 🥔 … Maybe you see a baked potato and can’t even recognize it when it’s being a hash brown, but it still is that good old potato we all know and love.

10/09/2022

To all parents out there 💚💙 We see you ! Having children is one of the most rewarding experiences one can have. True. B U T ;
Portraying perfect parenting is toxic ☢️
There ! I said it 🤐 Why?
Because no experience in life is perfect ☝🏻
If you’re not vulnerable and sincere about how difficult it can be times, not only you won’t connect to yourself and validate your own stress, fears or exhaustion. But you’ll also alienate other parents around who just want to have an honest moments

09/09/2022

Thank you Your Majesty Queen Elizabeth, for teaching us how women rule 👑👑👑
🤍 1926-2022🤍

09/09/2022

Couples fight endlessly about FAIRNESS. There are 2️⃣ big misconception.

1️⃣ Equality and equivalency are different. The idea of dividing household duties or finances, for example, equally, is somewhere between ideal and idealist. Not exactly achievable. Divide and conquer is a much effective approach to decrease tension.

2️⃣ Tip for tap feeds a culture of retaliation between the couple. Basically two wrongs don’t make a right.

Accepting we are imperfect, help us move from holding our partners accountable for every single bit of mismatch in effort they might have towards a conversation about what matters to you and what matters to your partner.

08/09/2022

💖💙🧡💚
We are wired and socially conditioned to invest on each other . That is a good thing ☝🏻
But king is in the boundaries, in respect and reciprocity.

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Tuesday	13:00 - 19:00
Wednesday	13:00 - 18:00
Thursday	14:00 - 19:45
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About Dr.Astrid Matarrita-Chichilla

Psychologist specialized in Clinic Psychology, psychotherapy and couple’s counseling. Dr. Astrid has 10 years of experience as a Psychotherapist and 7 years practicing abroad. Currently living and practicing in Ho Chi Minh City.

A session with Dr. Astrid provides a safe and empathetic environment for you to comfortably discuss your story, free from judgment. A tailored approach to each individual working to provide a unique and personal care to suit your needs. You can expect to experience an interesting combination of modern and classical psychology.

Her goal is to guide you through the process of fulfilling that innate need to find purpose, to understand ourself and to be understood by others, and ultimately to find happiness and claim control over our lives.