Session 2 | Beverly | In Therapy with Alex Howard
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- Опубліковано 1 лис 2021
- In today’s episode, we’ll be looking at how the coping strategies that we form as children, especially when dealing with trauma, can affect us in later life. Stay tuned until the end, where I’ll be sharing my TOP TIP on how we can start to undo some of the negative impacts of those strategies.
Alex Howard is a London-based Therapeutic Coach dedicated to helping break the stigma around mental health and helping people make real, positive changes in their lives. Alex is also the creator of Therapeutic Coaching and founder of The Optimum Health Clinic and Conscious Life.
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Very courageous Bev,you'll be helping many as well as yourself I'm sure .
Goodness, what an amazing, respectful and open session. Thank you for allowing us to look in, Beverly and Alex.
Thank you Beverley for being so honest and open - it's uncanny but I can relate to almost everything you said as I had a very similar childhood and relationship with my mother. I also feel I've always had a broken heart and have been withdrawn and unable to express or feel my feelings because of this. I understand that my mother was suffering too from an abusive childhood but it doesn't make it any easier to be my true self.
This set of therapy sessions is so resonating with me. Obviously, some of Beverley's content is different from mine but many of the issues she is discovering and talking about apply to me. I am even older than Beverley and have spent many years exploring my earlier life and trying to make sense of it and who I am and I had also given up on therapy and spirit but a chronic illness has pulled me back into it. I look forward to watching more sessions and seeing how this plays out.
It's difficult to listen due to the uncomfortable familiarity in her story. Thank you for her honesty in sharing her video, which can resonate and help others with similar childhoods and adult issues.
I am with you, Bev.
“It feels like this darkness is stopping the light getting through”. Wow!
So helpful, thank you! Good reminder to explore with curiosity while noting the inner critic popping in .
Lovely Bev. My 22 year old son and I think you are incredible. X
Me too!!!!! Xx
Thank you Beverly and Alex as this has helped me to understand my husband more.
You are one brave lady Bev..bravo 👍🙏🏼😊💛
Wishing I could be friends with this lovely lady 🩵
Oh my, I sooooo relate to this.
Thank you Beverly and Alex for this episode and being so open. I understand so much how you feel as it resonates so much with me too best wishes
Alex I could do with your help I have suffered as a child neglect and cptsd
Very interesting thank you
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14:20 - I don't understand that bit. Why do people ask how it feels in your chest and heart? I assume they looking for a description of a physical sensation.
But she said it felt "Full of tears and pain".. how did she know to say that when asked what it feels like in her chest and heart?!
I feel like I'm missing something important here
I think he wants her to be aware of what she is feeling underneath rather than what her mind is telling her. Anxiety does bring some physical symptoms, tightness in the chest area, trouble breathing properly etc. We all get caught up in our heads and don’t pay attention as much to our hearts and physical reactions. Just IMO.
@@mmmmlllljohn But how exactly did she come to the conclusion that her physical sensations were "full of tears and pain"? I don't know about you, but my physical sensations don't tell me anything that specific. Certainly not using words like those! I might describe it as a buzzing feeling in my body or a tightness in my throat, but I wouldn't be able to give you emotional descriptors like tears and pain. It seems very strange to me and I don't understand how she found those words so easily.
@@Intensive_Porpoises I think when she recognised the physical reaction to the pain she had felt all her life sat in her chest, and how upset she was, there was a connection that she could make to the physical effects she was experiencing at that time with Alex and also her emotional state and her tears that surfaced when she sat there. You saying that you may describe it as buzzing or tightness and those words are equally as vivid.
Bev how are you?
I think this lifelong sadness can be a result of two lonely depressed people having an only child. Its really not fair on the child. The parents having come from such large families should have known better, but sounds as though they were the invisible and forgotten children of their own families.