Goodbye letter
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March 29, 2023
Current Themes
DBT skills training for family members
Emotional deregulation frames are characterized by mood instability, difficulty in identifying and understanding emotional responses and difficulty knowing what to do to regulate them. It is a set of very reactive emotional responses added to inability to modulate the...
March 23, 2023How to better deal with emotions during the psychologist's vacation?
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March 15, 2023Lessons I learned playing boardgames
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March 10, 2023With your feet in March…
They say March is when the year starts "to real". My invitation here is that we can think about what it means "to real" for each of us. For some it may be "running time", to "go after", to make it happen. Go after what same? You know what you want? Where you go? These are some reflections that can help us find meaning in what we are doing, or show us that we are lost from ourselves and what is important to us. Having the clarity about what we are seeking help to move in this direction....
March 03, 2023Should your son/daughter be exactly as you would like it?
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February 07, 2023Knowing yourself… Peeling the onion
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January 25, 2023ACT: Experienced avoidance and acceptance
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an approach to understanding human functioning and psychological intervention. The central objective of the interventions proposed by the approach is to generate psychological flexibility from the application of acceptance processes and behavioral change....
January 12, 2023New Year's Eve parties and substance use disorder (TUS): synonymous with more attention to relapse prevention
New Year's Eve parties are approaching, a period of the year that usually leads us to reflect and take stock of what we do all over. For some people is a very sensitive time And hard, especially when there are not so good memories of this time. For some it is time to be with the family and from the people who love each other, finally, for each person the holidays have a baggage of meanings. Thinking of people who live with the disorder due to use of substances (TUS) this period also has a very important meaning of special “care”. At this time of year the dangers of relapses increase, as we have an increase the supply of alcohol and other drugs, it is a time when emotions are sometimes to Skin flower increasing the risks to those who They seek to live in sobriety. Relapse prevention is a fundamental strategy for this moment of the year, as in this period the minimization of the notion of risks increases, as it is a period of meeting with The people we like, for having been in withdrawal for some time, the meetings and gifts seem very normal and proper to these parties, can produce false security. However, it should be prevented: 1- Make a map of the places you want to attend and 2- be aware of the basic rules of a good relapse prevention, which comprises the places and people you will Finding these holidays in these holidays, 3- Choose first and calmly and calmly for the holidays, so that you really can identify the risks that can affect your sobriety. Another important point for relapse prevention, is 4- Take care of your emotions, sometimes so long without finding family and friends, tend to bring the things of the past, remembering facts of Time of illness, and in Consequence generates feeling of guilt, discussions, regrets, revolts that shake the emotional to justify possible reasons for falling....
December 22, 2022Which direction do you choose to follow in your life?
For a long time, I realized disconnected from things that were important to me, to be specific since I was 13 years old did not feel close to the things that made sense in my life. Some experiences experienced in my childhood and adolescence generated in me insecurity, fear, disability and uncertainty of who I really were. For a moment I felt capable and at other times I was catching for thoughts of disability, defeat and uncertainty. And it's okay to come across these thoughts, but the only way I dealt with them was fusing me to them and letting them say who I really was. Given this, I often left these thoughts to guide me and move to the opposite side of what was really important to me, letting them paralyze me and see me lost in which direction to go....
December 21, 2022