Sandton Psychologist - Sacha Proctor

28/01/2025

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08/12/2024

We are loving this incredibly practical book by Jennifer Mann and Karden Rabin .
- Become aware of the dysregulated responses in your mind and body
- Interrupt these unhelpful responses
-Redesign and rewire them to transform your health and life

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16/11/2024

“Healing isn’t always a single breakthrough moment; often it is a series of small shifts that reveal we are on the right path .” Terry Real

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16/11/2024

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13/12/2023

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13/04/2023

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07/02/2023

SIGNS THAT YOU MAY REQUIRE COUPLES COUNSELING

1. You hardly speak to each other

2. You argue on trivial matters constantly

3. You are scared to speak about important topics for fear of it turning into a conflict

4. You restrict love and affection as punishment

5. You treat your spouse as your enemy

6. You keep secrets

9. Your married life lacks intimacy

10. You constantly want your spouse to change

Couples Therapy is a form of counseling designed to help partners recognize and resolve conflict or challenges that may weigh on their relationship.

Couples Therapy can benefit couples by improving communication skills between two people and helping them to discover root causes of major points of conflicts. Better understanding can be found between couples when they enter into therapy, it can also encourage better acceptance of one another. Relationship counselling often provides the opportunity to increase shared support and it can restore emotional and physical intimacy.

Many couples have also reported that marriage therapy helped to decrease emotional detachment or avoidancethat they were experiencing in their relationship .

Whether you identify one or many of the above problems in your relationship, please visit our website today to enquire about making an appointment.

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24/01/2023

01/12/2022

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A gentle reminder about why you are utterly exhausted…

No one I know began this year on a full tank. Given the vicious onslaught of the previous two years (let’s just call it what it was) most of us dragged ourselves across the finish line of 2021… frazzled, spent, running on aged adrenaline fumes…

We crawled into 2022 still carrying shock, trauma, grief, heaviness, disbelief… The memories of a surreal existence…

And then it began… The fastest hurricane year we could ever have imagined. Whether we have consciously processed it or not, this has been a year of more pressure, more stress, and a race to “catch up” in all departments… Every. Single. One. Work, school, sports, relationships, life…

Though not intentionally aware, perhaps hopeful that the busier we are, the more readily we will forget… the more easily we will undo the emotional tangle… the more permanently we will wipe away the scarring wounds…

We can’t.

And attempts to re-create some semblance of “normal” on steroids while disregarding that for almost two years our sympathetic nervous systems were on full alert, has left our collective mental health in tatters. Our children and teens are not exempt. The natural byproduct of fighting a hurricane is complete and utter exhaustion…

So before you begin questioning the absolutely depleted and wrung-dry state you are in- Pause. Breathe. Remind yourself of who you are and what you have endured. And then remind yourself of what you have overcome.

Despite it all, you’re still going. (Even on the days you stumble and find yourself face down in a pile of dirt).

Understanding brings compassion…

Most of the world’s citizens are in need of a little extra TLC at the moment. Most are donning invisible “Handle with care” posters around their necks and “Fragile” tattoos on their bodies…

Instead of racing to the finish line of this year, tread gently. Go slowly.

Amidst the chaos, find small pockets of silence. Find compassion. Allow the healing. And most of all… Be kind. There’s no human being on earth who couldn’t use just a little bit more of the healing salve of kindness.

With love
Naomi ♥️