Wellness Based Therapy

Finding compassion even when it seems impossible can be one of the post healing things we can do for ourselves.

Try being in nature! Even though it’s now summer in the desert getting up early, going up the team, going to Idyllwild or Big Bear are all available to us during the hot summer Monday months!

I do prescribe breath almost every day to every client. It is a one of the best starting places to calm our nervous systems and help regulate anxiety and depression. Marina Compean shared a link. Admin June 22 at 9:39 PM #polyvagalpanoply... While prescribing breath is not something I would necessarily do, it’s an interesting thought to have clients befriend their breath outside of session, as part of a self-care, wellbeing, resiliency building practice. Breathework, neurofeedback, and other modalities such as HeartMath that focus on monitoring and improving HRV as a measure of vagal tone could be a great adjunct to therapy! Of course, resiliency practices that help manage and mitigate the stress response can also be quite effective! PSYCHOLOGYTODAY.COM Longer Exhalations Are an Easy Way to Hack Your Vagus Nerve Respiratory vagus nerve stimulation (rVNS) counteracts fight-or-flight stress.

This is an interesting article to learn from!