Paul Ziller Psychotherapy

This is a very comprehensive making-space-for our basic feeling of anger. So often folks aren’t ok with their anger, or how it manifests. It can often arise around family time throughout the holidays. Addressing that shame, and building somatic awareness around the ways it arises in us is part of the process of finding our way through it.

On this World Mental Health Day, this really resonated...the way it summons our inner child, and perhaps some awareness around our own path or choices. What do we uphold, or have we set as our North Star? In what ways do we prioritize touching into, or moving towards our essential self, or transcending the projections of others, or external expectations? A powerful invitation to dig deeper around this. #CathyThorne #EveryDayPeopleCartoons #WorldMentalHealthDay #WorldMentalHealthDay2020

This new-ish Netflix docu does a pretty comprehensive job of examining the human harm of social networking. A helpful lens to notice our own use, and begin to address any compulsive or addictive patterns that may not be serving us. Therapy can help us access and build out alternate resources. / We’re training and conditioning a whole new generation of people that when we are uncomfortable, or lonely, or uncertain, or afraid, we have a digital pacifier for ourselves that is kind of atrophying our own ability to deal with that. - Tristan Harris

As part of the #HowAreYouReallyChallenge by the Mental Health Coalition, #WhoopiGolberg answers the question, "How are you, really?" Do you feel you can share that with a friend, loved one, or therapist? Not the socially polite or safe answer, but the real answer? I hope you have or can access that support, and have space for how you are, really.... #mhc

The new HSP documentary is out...the second in the series. (Just $10 to view online.) "SENSITIVE LOVERS: A DEEPER LOOK INTO THEIR RELATIONSHIPS" features bestselling author-psychologist Dr. Elaine Aron ("The Highly Sensitive Person") and the eminent scientist of love and relationships, Dr. Arthur Aron ("36 Questions"). Based on their life long research of close relationships and the trait of high sensitivity, they explain how negative childhood experiences and buried traumas affect our adult relationships, break down science behind most critical scenes of Sensitive and in Love and provide suggestions for highly sensitive people and those close to them for wiser, more skillful and fulfilling relationships. #HSP #HighlySensitive #DrElaineAron #SensitiveLovers #Relationships #Couples #DrArthurAron

Abby Cadabby of Sesame Street has a special message and reminder for your INNER CHILD. That's right...this can serve not just current children. In the spirit of the self compassion and self care work I do, she's encouraging a SELF HUG. Useful in a moment of distractedness, overwhelm, or helplessness. Take a second nowgive it a try. Really focus in on the sensations, and notice YOU showing up for yourself. How is that for you?... Be well. And keep on self-hugging! #InnerChild #SesameStreet #AbbyCadabby #SelfHug #SelfCompassion #SelfCare #COVID #Quarantine #ShelterInPlace

Lisa Olivera Therapy, LMFT #106546 provides a beautiful reminder and invitation for us to be gentle on ourselves in this time of collective trauma and threat. You are doing the best you can. #SelfCompassion

How are these challenging times impacting you, and how have you been taking care of yourself? It's presenting a very clear invitation to us to really adapt and rally our resources, and the importance of the need for that prioritization and mindfulness has perhaps never been clearer or greater. There are many lists of suggestions floating around for how to cope. This one highlights some of the most important and largely intuitive points:... Focus on the things you CAN control. Stay connected. Take cafe of your holistic self! I'm sending you energetic support in finding your way through this in whatever way you can, or need to. If you find that you're isolating or isolated, be really curious about any connection that you might be able to reach out for, that could be supportive to you in any way.

I am currently offering online Telehealth therapy sessions, via video and/or phone. This allows you to continue your therapy work from your home, while honoring the shelter-in-place and social distancing mandates. Reach out for a FREE 20-minute consultation. (Available to Californians.) Our video sessions powered by SimplePractice client portal.... #Telehealth #VideoTherapy #Therapy #resources #boundaries #mentalhealth #healing #shame #sensitive #awareness #therapy #therapist #sfbayarea #support #wellness #sanfrancisco #individuals #couples #talk #psychology #mft #lmft #paulziller #psychotherapy #socialdistancing #shelterinplace #OnlineTherapy #SimplePractice #Teletherapy

Bodyposipanda offers some supportive and permissive messaging around this current time of major change to our lives and routines, and the awarenesses we may have around how our bodies or sense of self are being impacting. Be especially curious about your self talk right now, and if/how it’s serving you, or harming you. Stay connected, and reach out to others when you need contact or aid in these isolating times. #bodypositive #bodyacceptance #intuitiveeating #selftalk #permission #bodyposipanda #resources #boundaries #inspiration #quotes #mentalhealth #healing #shame #sensitive #awareness #therapy #therapist #sfbayarea #support #wellness #sanfrancisco #individuals #couples #talk #psychology #mft #lmft #paulziller #psychotherapy #socialdistancing, #routine #body #isolation #snacks

#JackKornfield offers some potent strategies in responding to our repeating negative thoughts. In part, a self compassionate response to ourselves of: Thank you for trying to protect me, but I’m OK now. That acknowledges why this defense is in place, and how it perhaps served us in the past in some way. ...and replacement self talk like: May I be safe and protected. or I will live with trust and kindness. can offer some alternative self soothing and holding. We can star...t to loosen the grip of these unhealthy thought patterns with such substitution, repetition and self compassion. #Anxiety #Difficult #Negative #Thoughts #Strategies #Therapy #SelfCompassion #Safety

This highlights how our cognitive process can be limited, or not have all the data it needs to allow us to settle on something. Therefore, the clarity we can find in our somatic awareness and practice may be more powerful to address ambivalence, or a stuck place. Einstein's story proved this as well. All the thinking in his lab didn't provide his discovery to crack the laws of physics. But the regulated state of being on his beloved sailboat did. If you find yourself cycling ...on a hard decision, take some time to notice what's arising in your bodily sensations. Where do you most notice that? And, can you be with it for a time, without trying to actively move it away? What do you notice as you give it your awareness and presence? This practice comes from #SomaticExperiencing, and is invaluable for downregulation, and moving through states, including anxiety, numbness, etc. #quotes #mentalhealth #healing #shame #sensitive #awareness #therapy #therapist #sfbayarea #support #wellness #sanfrancisco #individuals #couples #talk #psychology #mft #lmft #paulziller #psychotherapy #somatic

"THINGS TO REMEMBER DURING THE HOLIDAYS" These offer some great resources, normalizing perspectives, encouragement of self permission, and more throughout these often over-stimulating, paradoxical times. #DaniellKoepke / Daniell Koepke - Internal Acceptance Movement - I AM... #holidays #resources #boundaries #family #challenges #inspiration #quotes #mentalhealth #healing #shame #sensitive #awareness #therapy #therapist #sfbayarea #support #wellness #sanfrancisco #individuals #couples #talk #psychology #mft #lmft #paulziller #psychotherapy

Do you lose yourself in the expectations and over-stimulation of the holidays? Do you have permission to lean into your needs and boundaries at this time, in the face of so many others’? Here are some great tips for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) on how to take care of yourself through these holidays. Although they are applicable to many. What depletes you, and what really brings you joy? Get really curious, and pay attention to those. Notice when you override them, or when ...you listen to them. #hsp #highlysensitivepeople #DrElaineAron #holidays #overstimulation #needs #boundaries #selfcare #mentalhealth #healing #sensitive #awareness #therapy #therapist #sfbayarea #support #wellness #sanfrancisco #individuals #couples #talk #psychology #mft #lmft #paulziller #psychotherapy

Daniell Koepke has a way with words, as you can see. Words that can lift the burden of shame, and help set us free. Words that make some sense of our pain, or patterns. These themes of being "TOO..." something are present for so many of us. Take some time to slowly take in her words. Or notice if you can't take them in, and be curious about that.... "You need what you need...It's never been an issue of worth. It's been an issue of fit...it's not about you." Perhaps today you can sink more fully into what you need. And the ok-ness of that. #DaniellKoepke / Daniell Koepke - Internal Acceptance Movement - I AM #inspiration #quotes #mentalhealth #healing #shame #sensitive #awareness #therapy #therapist #sfbayarea #support #wellness #sanfrancisco #individuals #couples #talk #psychology #mft #lmft #paulziller #psychotherapy

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