Learn simple DBT-informed skills for reducing distress and minimising conflict, including taking space, 5-4-3-2-1 grounding, TIPP, Wise Mind, GIVE, FAST, and checking the facts.
An evidence-based guide to Dependent Personality Disorder, including dependence, reassurance seeking, decision-making, causes, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.
What does Dependent Personality Disorder feel like? Learn about self-doubt, reassurance seeking, fear of being alone, relationships, and recovery.
A practical DBT Wise Mind exercise with examples and evidence-based explanations to support emotional regulation and balanced decision-making.
What does Borderline Personality Disorder feel like from the inside? Explore emotional intensity, relationships, shame, loneliness, identity, and recovery.
An evidence-based guide to Borderline Personality Disorder, including symptoms, causes, relationships, emotional regulation, diagnosis and treatment.
To maintain a balanced internal narrative takes continuous, conscious effort. Our minds default to problem-solving, yet without intentional attention to the pleasantries of life, that bias can drift into rumination, anxiety, and exhaustion. This evidence-based article explores negativity bias, nervous system activation, and practical ways to cultivate long-term psychological balance.
A simple and evidence-based mindful breathing exercise called Deep Calm Cool Warm to calm the nervous system, reduce anxiety, and quieten a racing mind. Suitable for adolescents and adults, and especially helpful for sleep disturbance.
Burnout is a common response to prolonged stress in helping professions. This article outlines the signs, contributing factors, and evidence-based pathways to recovery, written from a clinical psychology perspective.