Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
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We’re All Doing This During the Pandemic
“We are all riding on our own personal emotional roller coasters.”
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School Counselors Have A Message For Kids: It’s OK To Not Be OK
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The key is to have some compassion for yourself, similar to the compassion you might have for someone else in a vulnerable situation. When you can do that, suddenly what the other person does isn’t as important, you’ve given yourself grace, and acceptance.
As childhood abuse survivors, of course, this is tricky. Self-compassion is not generally one of our strengths. How could it be? All our lives we’ve been told that bad things happen either to bad people, or for a reason, and we’ve had something horrible happen to us, so we must be broken in some way to have had that experience. Didn’t we all think that way at one point or another? How could we not?
Sharing – Disrupting Psychotherapy: it’s time to reimagine how we provide mental health services
I hope those who work in the field are thinking the way Aaron is: “Rather than seeing this as a stop-gap until psychotherapy can return to the status quo, therapists should instead see it as an opportunity to rethink the delivery of psychological services all together.” Most of what we consider “therapy” has been around…