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Emotional Regulation & Behavior Change

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Emotional Regulation & Behavior Change

Create a Path and Practice Stick-to-itiveness

Clarifying what matters, turning values into action, and practising stick to itiveness can help create steadiness in life. This article explores how values based actions, scheduled into everyday routines, support resilience even when motivation and emotions fluctuate.

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Emotional Regulation & Behavior Change

Compassion, Acceptance, and Forgiveness Are Their Own Reward

Compassion, acceptance, and forgiveness are learnable skills that support emotional steadiness and nervous system balance. Research shows they reduce stress, improve mood and sleep, and strengthen resilience. Small, genuine acts can create meaningful shifts in daily life and relationships.

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A softly illuminated lighthouse on a coastal walking path at dusk, symbolising guidance and direction. White text reads Let your values be your guide and David the Psychologist at hennessyclinicalpsychology. The scene represents how personal values can act like a guiding light during emotional or uncertain times.
Emotional Regulation & Behavior Change

Let Your Values be Your Guide

Clarifying your values strengthens direction, resilience, and wellbeing. This post explores how identifying what matters most and aligning your actions with your values enhances psychological health and life satisfaction.

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Psychology and Humour | Cartoon illustration of a smiling brain with blushing cheeks and lines suggesting laughter, symbolising the positive effects of humour on emotional wellbeing.
Emotional Regulation & Behavior Change

Humour: More Than Just a Laugh

Humour can do much more than make us laugh. Humour can support mental health, regulate stress, and foster emotional connection. Learn how laughter influences our brain chemistry and nervous system, and how to intentionally use humour to promote wellbeing.

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David Hennessy, Clinical Psychologist in Varsity Lakes, sitting calmly in a nature setting practising mindfulness meditation, wearing a colourful paisley shirt, surrounded by birds and wildlife.
Emotional Regulation & Behavior Change

Mindful Monday

Mindfulness is not about emptying the mind. It is about learning to notice where attention goes and gently guiding it back. This evidence-based overview explores how mindfulness strengthens emotional regulation, nervous system flexibility, and psychological resilience for adolescents and adults.

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Reflective Sunday concept representing psychological balance between happiness and adversity, used in an article by David Hennessy, Clinical Psychologist in Varsity Lakes, Gold Coast.
Emotional Regulation & Behavior Change

Sunday Balance | Happiness / Adversity

Sunday Balance explores how using Sunday as a reflective pause point can gently counter our natural attentional bias toward threat. Grounded in evidence-based psychology, this practice supports resilience, emotional regulation, and balanced awareness without denying hardship.

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