🥱Struggling to Rest? - with Clinical Psychologist Dr Rebekah Tennyson
Dr Rebekah Tennyson suggests these three approaches to help manage and recharge your energy:
1. 🙏Broaden your definition of rest! Rest is not limited to physical relaxation. It is also important to address a wider range of needs, including emotional, social, spiritual, creative, sensory, and mental health.
2. 🏃➡️Tailor rest to your individual needs. If you have a sedentary job, a restful activity may be a long walk or a jog. If you work around people all day, you may need time alone to recharge.
3. 🪞Address the barriers to resting. Common mental barriers can be self-criticism over being lazy, unproductive or feeling that you have not yet earned your rest. Instead of pushing yourself until these thoughts go away, learn how to rest while those feelings are still present
👩⚕️Dr Rebekah Tennyson is an HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist working with children, young people and families in the NHS alongside her private work. Her integrative “Pick’N’Mix” approach draws on Internal Family Systems, Emotion Focused Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, CBT, ACT/DNA-V, Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Adolescents, and Narrative Exposure Therapy. She is passionate about creating a space where we can feel safe to accept all parts of ourselves, even the ones we want to change or hide.
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