Dr. Negar Shekarabi

07/06/2020

I’m sharing this post from .holistic.psychologist because it’s so beautifully captures the work on processing complex childhood trauma. So much of my work revolves around helping my clients make shifts or deepen awareness of and tolerance for the discomfort these 5 elements create in themselves & their relationships. Go to the original post to read the caption & her excellent illustration of how childhood trauma impacts adult relationships.

06/29/2020

Turning an facing our trauma is how we heal from it. What that “facing towards” looks like for each of us may be different. But as long as we are turned away from our most painful feelings they are chasing us and we are under their control.

06/24/2020

The healing nature of talk therapy is always a sweet surprise 🦋

06/08/2020

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06/04/2020

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04/23/2020

It feels very important to critically look at the messaging right now around Self-Care.
The concept of “self-care” in times of stress & distress can be problematic. The narrative of self-care asks the individual (you) to take on the burden and labor yourself of improving your state of stress or distress. It asks of the individual to do more things to improve a situation that was created in the first place, in part, by doing too many things. If the issues underlying the need for self-care are systemic (inequality in resources, gender inequality, racism, etc.) an individualized self-care approach can not alone adequately address the impact.
Increasingly we are seeing a new narrative form of “Community Care.” Community Care can occur when individuals leverage their privilege to help others. In our current response some of us may find that we are able to be more productive while others of us have life circumstances that do not allow us to contribute in our jobs or relationships at the same level.
Community Care allows those of us who can be more productive to do so as a measure of support for our colleagues, friends and family demonstrating that we are all in this together and that true self-care is about letting others pick up the slack when we are in need as we will do for them when we are able.
Read more about what Community Care can look like and ways to begin promoting it: https://www.google.com/amp/s/mashable.com/article/community-care-versus-self-care.amp

11/26/2019

“We are a small, pro-mental-health-­culture company,” Harvey says. “If we don’t know how to do this, no one knows.”

Depression, anxiety, and other conditions go largely undiscussed—at a huge cost for business.