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Understanding what is happening
Short, plain-language explanations of the ideas the worksheets are built on — with diagrams. Read one before a worksheet, or on its own, whenever something needs to make sense before it can change.
Nervous System · 6 min read
How the brain works under stress
Why reasoning stops working in the moments you most want it to, and what is actually happening when you lose your temper or go blank.
Nervous System · 7 min read
Your nervous system, in plain language
Fight, flight, freeze and fawn; the window of tolerance; and why what settles one state makes another worse.
Anxiety · 6 min read
Anxiety and the avoidance loop
Why avoiding something makes it bigger, and what happens to fear when you stay in the room.
Depression · 5 min read
Depression and the spiral
Why doing less makes it worse, and why action has to come before motivation rather than after it.
Trauma · 7 min read
Trauma and the body's sense of time
Why you can know something is over and still feel it happening, and what a trigger actually is.
CBT · 6 min read
CBT: thoughts, feelings and behaviour
The loop at the centre of cognitive behavioural therapy, and the shortcuts a tired mind takes.
ACT · 6 min read
ACT: values, defusion and making room
A different starting point — not changing the thought, but changing your relationship to it.
Emotional Regulation · 5 min read
Emotions: what they are for
Why naming a feeling turns the volume down, and what actually happens to an emotion left alone.
Boundaries · 5 min read
Boundaries, and what they actually are
Not walls, not punishments, and not instructions for other people.
Reading is not a substitute for support. Browse the worksheets when you want to put something down on paper.