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Jon Pedrosa - Clinical Psychologist

• Clinical Psychologist
• Owner of ZoneOfEmotionalDevelopment

17/07/2025

From the second the umbilical cord is cut, the task of life is to separate...

Many parents struggle to grasp or understand that if your kids are able to separate someday and live their own lives independently, then you have done a good and meaningful job as a parent.

Many parents think that their child/children is their's to own. News flash, unpopular opinion, reality check, you have borrowed time with your child/children.

Your job is to nurture, teach, understand, care for, love, learn, and provide safety (psychological, emotional, and physical) for your child/children and adapt affectively and accordingly to your child/children's needs more than your own.

The ability to tune in to and understand your child/children's needs and to reflect this understanding to them with empathy, attentiveness, and warmth, in a way that allows them to learn, grow and feel empowered internally, is what falls in line with what we psychologists call, the 'good-enough' parent.

The 'good-enough' parent is able to relinquish control and let go as the child becomes older and accepts that the child will eventually become independent and separate from the parent, and start to live his/her own life in his/her own meaningful way - this makes the 'good-enough' parent feel comfortably content for the child/children's benefit.

The real success/meaningfulness is sometimes reflected when the child/children want to and choose to be around you when they become adults.

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31/05/2025

Usually, when something is missing, it might be yourself...

Sometimes, we abandon ourselves temporarily because we may be struggling with self-acceptance.

We experience different parts of ourselves in many different situations, contexts, environments, and phases of new life challenges that show up unannounced. Some of these challenges can also be extremely painful and require adjustment, which can be a long and difficult process.

In order to incorporate the new adjustments and processes of challenges, we may have to temporarily abandon other parts of ourselves temporarily. While this happens, we may feel "out of sorts" and lost. This is when we become a somewhat blank canvas again, or like moving things in a room around to look different, but that still contains the same objects.
Change is never easy, but it is always inevitable. Change is how we learn our growing sense of self and experience the different parts of ourselves that may be required for the various unannounced challenges that show up.

Remember 👉🏼 It is always important to give yourself permission to be patient with yourself and allow yourself time 🤍 It is within the space of time, that adjustment takes place, and the self is molded accordingly.

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30/04/2025

Loss is a very personal experience, and we all experience loss differently. There is no "right" way. There may be a more "preferred" way, but that's still always our own fantasy, hope, desire, or wish 💭

What are some of your experiences with loss?

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08/02/2025

When something doesn't seem to make much sense, try fitting it in a context until the illogical makes logical sense.
The more we unpack things and reflect on that which is being unpacked and repacked, the more we gain understanding, the more we don't have much use for bias inferences 💭

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10/10/2024

World Mental Health Awareness Day 💚

Metaphor for thought 💭

Sometimes, sitting on the bench, watching the game can be interesting and fascinating... but sometimes, actually being in the game and part of it is where the real scrapes and bruises happen. The reward of participating means we earn ourselves the gift of experience, a fancy word for mistakes, and learning.

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25/09/2024

Therapist: Did you ever consider, that perhaps your purpose isn't to be "happy", and that this socialized status quo has become a huge distraction? 💭

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23/09/2024

Repost The Couch

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16/03/2024

Are we ever fully healed???

I highly doubt that, but I will tell you this, healing is more times than not, a process of meaning making, or what some may want to call "closure."

For example:
When a loved one passes away, do we ever fully heal from this, and if so, what does this "healed" (some sort of finality) look like? We talk of healing as if there is an end result lurking around the corner somewhere. Give me a second, just let me grab my magic wand 🪄

Healing is always in a state of becoming, always undergoing, and dynamic. It looks different at different times and depends on where we find ourselves in our own development. The context and trigger at the time also determine if we regress and, more importantly, how we capable we are of managing this regression effectively. Therapy creates a safe space and a holding environment for this regression to be unpacked and reconstruted - through this process, we metaphorically play with these building blocks that end up providing meaningful reflections about how it looks differently now than previously, and so on... 🤍

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14/03/2024

I fall so far inward, through myself and back again, I don't know where, somewhere, somewhere in the aloness of everything I internalize.
It comes inside my home and over stays its welcome... Something deep inside myself longs and aches (psychologically and emotionally) to get out, out of this sunken deep hole, out into the world, where the light soothes the pain and bears witness to the perpetual, conflictual struggle that leaves me feeling helpless, hopeless and lonely.

Sometimes, there is no hole, the hole is an illusion, or a reflection that we have closed ourselves up because maybe we have decided based on many social impositions and expectations (external), of what we wish things to be and what they are, that we can no longer give ourselves permission to trust ourselves to speak and share and open up ourselves, so that we may distribute the 100% tension we carry equally with those that bear witness, there are many who bear witness 🤍

• Why do you resist the flow of yourself?

*Disclaimer - Remember, that this is an oversimplified view of depression, and this phenomenon and experience is way more complex. The purpose of this post, is to merely provoke thought and consideration around this topic.

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21/12/2023

It sometimes takes a while to learn to live in your own skin... Be gentle and patient with yourself while you put all the pieces of the puzzle together 🤍

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13/12/2022

Idealistic vs Realistic is what many of us struggle with in life.

We strive to create what we wish things to be, and in the long-run, we end up setting ourselves up to be disappointed and shocked. Our defense mechanisms of denial and projection hurts us.

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10/12/2022

"All you have to do, is be yourself..." - simple enough, or is it? 🤔

Sometimes, it takes a while to learn to live in your own skin...

What does being firmly grounded look like for you?

Thoughts? 💭

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Monday	10:00 - 19:00
Tuesday	10:00 - 19:00
Wednesday	08:00 - 13:00
Thursday	10:00 - 19:00
Friday	01:00 - 19:00
Saturday	08:00 - 12:00

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http://zedpsych.co.za/

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