Counselling in Widnes. Face to face, online & phone. Person-Centred, Experiential, Relational. Special interest in narcissistic abuse. @lisamajoruk
Widnes, England
Joined June 2020
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PTSD From Narcissistic Abuse: Why Standard Trauma Therapy Often Falls Short: Sentio Psychotherapy Practice® sentiopsychotherapypractice.…
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The Thwarted Self: How Narcissistic Abuse Dismantles Congruence and Blocks Our Natural Drive Toward Growth. A Person-Centred Perspective.
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A short video I’ve created.
‘Understanding narcissistic abuse’
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Do you hope that the narcissist in your life will change? A revealing new study may surprise you! Hope to see you on The Dr. Ramani Network where I get to talk to you directly about toxic and narcissistic relationships! drramaninetwork.com
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Part 3 Unpacking Hoovering- Did your narcissistic ex cheat on you and now wants you back? This is more common than you know! I’ve been there myself and it’s complicated! On The Dr. Ramani Network I break down what you need to know about their real motives. drramaninetwork.com
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Excited to begin this unique training to enhance my clinical practice working with people impacted by narcissistic abuse. #narcissisticabuse
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The neurobiological basis for both shame and dissociation is the dorsal vagal 'red zone' of freeze. They are both evolutionarily primitive survival strategies whose aim is to survive relational threat.
Read more in my book 'Unshame': carolynspring.com/books/
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ALT “Shame drives dissociation, and dissociation drives shame. They are both ways of surviving by disconnecting.”
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Carl Rogers (1961): On our reluctance to accept others as persons in their own right.
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Intro to Psychotherapy, Session 10
Carl Rogers: “If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding.”
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Glenn inspired me to re-read Rogers again. But this time more carefully. This time to see what has changed, what is a stake in psychotherapy, especially as my own understanding and experience in therapy have deepened over the years. Some quick hits:
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Rogers emphasized the experience of a helping relationship, instead of treat, cure, or change the patient. I don’t think we have evolved much despite the lip service to therapeutic alliance. In the clinics we have worked at, the underlying philosophy have continued to be
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Rogers emphasized the importance of integrated experiential process of exploring and learning. I look around presently and all I see is emphasis on using research to superimpose on experience, infatuation with skills, or preoccupation with self-aggrandizement.
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Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual's needs, rather than tailoring the person to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.
Milton H. Erickson
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We can't overcome shame alone. Because shame isn't a fault in our brain, something gone wrong in our wiring. It's a response to a rejecting world. And the answer to that is empathy.
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ALT "Shame disconnects us from people, and puts us outside the camp, excluded and unwanted. Empathy, on the other hand, reconnects us to people. It puts us on the same wavelength, looking eyeball-to-eyeball, experiencing the other's experience and being in the same psychological living space. Empathy restores to us the hope that we can be part of the group."
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Trust is an essential, core ingredient of #therapy – opening up, showing emotion, being vulnerable – and yet counterintuitive for those of us who've suffered relational #trauma or abuse. So how do we build that trust?
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ALT "Trust is built by the therapist knowing what they don't know."
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It's a strange society that we live in, where we assume that if someone is distressed by distressing events, distressing life circumstances, or distressing #trauma, there is something wrong with them – they are 'ill'.
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ALT “Feelings are meant to be felt: distress is not an illness.”
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The problem with emotions is that, in the moment, they can feel soooo overwhelming – as if they will never pass. I thought that if I started crying, I would never stop. Read more in this chapter from my book 'Unshame': carolynspring.com/blog/what-…
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ALT “Motions have motion. They don’t stay the same. So if I let them come, they might feel overwhelming for a while. But then they’ll pass. They will pass.”
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Due to #trauma, I spent so much of my life in 'danger mode' that I was oblivious to the world around me. On a walk one day with a friend, I noticed that she noticed EVERYTHING where I noticed NOTHING. And it made me curious.
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We don't become suicidal because we're selfish or weak. We're suicidal because our distress exceeds our current coping capacities. The first thing we need is hope that things can be better.
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