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Psychotherapy for Her
Adulthood
Teens
Perimenopause
Anxiety Therapy Whitby
Perimenopause Therapy Whitby
About
Contact
Speaking
Resources
Blog
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Why feel your emotions when you can eat (or not)?
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Managing Emotions Kira Hensley 2022-03-31 Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Managing Emotions Kira Hensley 2022-03-31

Why feel your emotions when you can eat (or not)?

Vanessa restricts to avoid feeling out of control, Jennifer uses sugar to cope with tension, and Ishani overeats to numb the feelings of anxiety.

What’s going on here? Why do Vanessa, Jennifer, and Ishani using food to cope with emotion, and others don’t?

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The Reason Your Anxious Thoughts Won’t Stop - No Matter How Hard You Try
Mindfulness, Managing Thoughts Kira Hensley 2021-08-31 Mindfulness, Managing Thoughts Kira Hensley 2021-08-31

The Reason Your Anxious Thoughts Won’t Stop - No Matter How Hard You Try

Discover two processes (noticing the thought and categorization) that help create psychological distance from the thought, so we can begin to view thoughts as simply - thoughts.

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First panic attack in your 40s? Thanks hormones.

Estrogen and progesterone both regulate your stress response system. When they decline in perimenopause, the threshold for a full alarm response drops. No prior anxiety history required.

And hot flas Seeing straight through the bullshit.
A nervous system that picks up everything.
A kind of invisibility you never asked for.
And, occasionally, the strength to bend steel in the middle of a peri rage.

Not exactly what we expected.

But there is some You've been managing. Coping. Keeping it together.

And then perimenopause arrived, and suddenly the strategies that worked for years just...don't.

The focus is gone. The memory is unreliable. The emotional regulation that used to feel automatic now