Navigating our way past disappointment - the path through processing
I wanted to share this recent experience, in case it resonates with you too. My family and I were heading away for a few days on annual...
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Kathy Carter
- Jul 14
- 8 min
What is anxiety; the nervous system; the physical experience, and how to beat stress
All about anxiety - what it is, its relationship to stress; tips to beat anxiety, inc CBT and mindfulness, and regulation of nervous system
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Kathy Carter
- Jun 17
- 1 min
Podcast 14 - Karpman's Drama Triangle - navigating family and relational dramas (+ Hypno-CBT)
A brief introduction to Stephen Karpman's drama triangle, a model of relating whereby we slip into victimhood.
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Kathy Carter
- May 18
- 9 min
Introducing the Enneagram model: a personality system to help with self-growth and healing
This blog looks at the nine Enneagram types. The Enneagram model is a personality system that categorises individuals into nine types.
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Kathy Carter
- Apr 2
- 5 min
“I'm NOT Dwayne Dibley". Red Dwarf, & rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD) as a defence mechanism
“I'm NOT Dwayne Dibley”. Red Dwarf’s ‘Back to Reality’ as a metaphor for rejection sensitive dysphoria, a hallucinogenic defence mechanism
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Kathy Carter
- Mar 6
- 7 min
‘Mask mapping’ – getting to know your masking Self. (Autistic masking, HSP)
Getting to know your masking self. Autistic masking, HSP, neurodiversity. Using mask mapping to meet the part of us that conserves spoons
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Kathy Carter
- Feb 26
- 5 min
Personal boundaries - theoretical limits and rules we set ourselves
Let’s talk about boundaries. Anyone who has worked with me as a client will know that boundaries and values come up quite a lot in the...
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Kathy Carter
- Nov 11, 2022
- 1 min
PODCAST – (12) – get to know your autonomic nervous system (ANS)
PODCAST – (12) – get to know your autonomic nervous system (ANS)
#polyvagal #autism #neurodiversity #ANS #ventralvagal
Discover your ANS!
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Kathy Carter
- Oct 19, 2022
- 2 min
Witches – persecuted women remembered with cheap candy and flammable masks
Halloween and the perscecuted women. ‘Witch hunt’ is a term often used against marginalised women, and those exhibiting trauma responses.
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Kathy Carter
- Sep 16, 2022
- 1 min
PODCAST – (11) – ‘holding patterns’, stimming, tics, and the train analogy of regulation...
PODCAST – Show 11 – ‘holding patterns’, stimming, tics, and the train analogy of regulation..
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Kathy Carter
- Sep 7, 2022
- 2 min
What's in a (therapy) name? Arriving at a destination point on your current life journey...
Talk therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy and finding your destination: I can help you arrive at destination point on life's journey...
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Kathy Carter
- Aug 29, 2022
- 3 min
Anxiety and neurodivergent folk – sensory sensitivities, unpredictability and social interactions
How anxiety affects neurodivergent folk – inc. sensory sensitivity, unpredictability and social interactions
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Kathy Carter
- Apr 14, 2022
- 6 min
The Friends TV characters’ attachment styles - decoded!
A perfect showcase for considering familial relationships and attachment styles (& personality disorders) is TV.. #friendstvshow #attachment
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Kathy Carter
- Apr 11, 2022
- 7 min
Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy within therapeutic work
DBT, or Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Hypno CBT, & CBT within therapy
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Kathy Carter
- Jan 21, 2022
- 8 min
Bridget Jones’s social nervous system and attachment styles
ATTACHMENT - we're all intrinsically linked to our family backgrounds; a showcase 4 familial relationships is Bridget Jones's Diary
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Kathy Carter
- Jan 7, 2022
- 1 min
Podcast (10) What's anxiety - and simple tips to aid recovery and regulation
New podcast - What's anxiety - simple tips for recovery - following on from - Anxiety through the holistic lens .'
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Kathy Carter
- Sep 6, 2021
- 1 min
PODCAST: (9) All about burnout! Recognising autonomic system burnout, and stopping it from occurring
All about burnout. Are you burning the candle at both ends?
We talk about the various ways we experience burnout, & how it relates to ANS
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Kathy Carter
- Sep 6, 2021
- 1 min
Podcast 8; self hypnosis exercise; relaxation & bodily functions-defecatory dysfunction/incontinence
This is a self hypnosis / meditation / focussed attention exercise which should help you gain some relaxation. Hypno for #FGID #weakbladder
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Kathy Carter
- Aug 21, 2021
- 1 min
PODCAST (7) Anxiety through the holistic lens – it’s not just in your head! A nervous system view
Anxiety is multi-faceted – memory, imagination, thoughts, trauma, genetics, emotions, & neurological networking within the brain & ANS.
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Kathy Carter
- Jul 21, 2021
- 2 min
Dealing with anxiety using cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy - take control of your anxiety
Dealing with anxiety using cognitive behavioural hypnotherapy - therapy for anxiety: it's a kinetic experience. We FEEL it. We DO anxiety.
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