Thank you for these insightful videos and for being so courageous, Belle. I hope the sessions bring you some peace of mind and help you move forward to a happier phase of life 😊 Allowing others to witness the process of therapy may give them the strength to step forward with their own problems. I, for one, would recommend these videos to someone close, perhaps worried about entering therapy. Drop by drop, and meeting by meeting, the world can start to heal xx ❤❤❤
These videos are invaluable. It's so interesting to see this behaviour as self-harm. Thank you Belle for your courageous vulnerability and thank you Alex for giving clarity and accessibility to such important and life-altering truths.
Thank you for being so honest Belle! The part of dealing with it and not wanting to be that ...person, was very helpful for me (as a young woman with chronic fatigue).
I want to be Belle's friend. So relatable and beautiful, inside out. Feeling this story so much. Thank you for being so brave, Belle, and Alex for having this platform.
Would love to know how you would go about counselling someone who was raised in a 'cult' and abused emotionally, spiritually, and mentally. Being vunerable and being your true self was definately not ok and not safe.
Thankyou. I'm ok. But my husband tells me I'm not and I've believed him for 44yrs. I hope Belle gets there. It looks like she is. Dont let anyone tell you you're not ok. X
I'm surprised they haven't got into the big why before...I mean everything comes from the first trauma/s. It's clear that one needs to work on the consequences later, but the big question is always the how did we get here, what happened, at least to understand the dynamics. The next episode seems to get more to the roots, but yet I'm surprised it's not been talked about so far.
As a counseling student, from my experiences so far, clients subconsciously ask if they can trust this stranger. They take time to know this professional and open up that hard topic such as reading aloud raw writing as Belle did. His psychoeducation helps her understand what she is doing and what is happening in the process to first approach and next know how to start the work.
@chloewright3611 Maybe it matters if you are still unaware of your trauma. She talked very positively about the family so far. I started my trauma therapy knowing exactly what had happened, so we were very open about the people and dynamics that got me there.
From my perspective, it's really important to take the therapeutic process one step at a time... it's not just what we say, it's how we say it, when we say it, and how it lands 🙂
