Rhizome Practice Blog.
Schema? I Don’t Even Know Her! How Getting to Know Your Own Lifetraps Can Change Your Life.
In this blog post I explore a lesser known offshoot of CBT called Schema Therapy. This therapy works with our internal world or system of “parts” to help us solve some of the ways we sabotage ourselves without knowing why we do it.
Help! My Brain is Torturing Me: Six Steps to Tackle Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts.
In this blog post I explore the nature of unwanted intrusive thoughts, what they are, why they cause us so much trouble and what we can do about them.
5 Fast Ways to Anchor the Body When Stressed.
In this blog post I explore the best ways to stop ourselves from spiralling when events or people trigger a trauma-based stress response. The Five Anchors come from Resmaa Menakem’s (highly recommended) book “My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialised Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies" and are themselves based on the work of Dr David Schnarch.