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"Triggers", Trauma & The London Bridge Attacks
Here is a link to my December 2019 article on Counselling Directory about the London Bridge Attacks, the trauma terrorist attacks cause...
Andrew Keefe
Dec 6, 20191 min read
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Emotional Abuse: Survival, Recovery and Learning to Live again
https://secure.counselling-directory.org.uk/members/publisharticle.php?article_id=16637
Andrew Keefe
Sep 25, 20191 min read
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Why do we need emotions?
https://secure.counselling-directory.org.uk/members/publisharticle.php?article_id=16545
Andrew Keefe
Jul 26, 20191 min read
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Take a Deep Breath....
How breathing and stretching can calm mind and body when you are worried, scared or angry: https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/couns...
Andrew Keefe
Jun 8, 20191 min read
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When starting Psychotherapy Makes you feel Worse....
Here is a link to an article I've just had published on Counselling Directory about why you can initially feel worse after starting...
Andrew Keefe
Apr 1, 20191 min read
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When you want to exercise but #depression and #anxiety are holding you back
I've dscussed the benefits of exercise for people living with depression, anxiety and #trauma in other posts on this site: in this Vlog,...
Andrew Keefe
Mar 21, 20191 min read
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Working with the Mind in the Body
Here is a link to an article I've had published about my thoughts on how to combine #psychotherapy with #fitness to help people recover...
Andrew Keefe
Mar 12, 20191 min read
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Therapeutic Fitness
In this video, I discuss how I am planning to combine #psychotherapy with #fitness to help people work through #depression, #trauma and...
Andrew Keefe
Feb 28, 20191 min read
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Mind & Body Health: why I'm becoming a fitness instructor as well as a psychotherapist.
I've been a #therapist (first a counsellor and now a psychotherapist) for over twenty years and a few months ago, decided that I wanted...
Andrew Keefe
Feb 19, 20197 min read
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Selfie-Danger and the Myth of Narcissus:
Everyone takes selfies and there's nothing wrong with that in itself, though there are risks for your mental well-being if you are...
Andrew Keefe
Feb 18, 20191 min read
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Starting Therapy
In this video, I discuss what might be making you anxious about starting #therapy and what will happen in the first session to make you...
Andrew Keefe
Feb 4, 20191 min read
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Sexual Abuse and Birth Trauma: the links between them and how EMDR can help reduce the risk.
In a previous Blog, I wrote about escaping from the trauma of #sexualabuse and how #psychotherapy can help. I'm going to explore one of...
Andrew Keefe
Jan 31, 20198 min read
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Opening Up about Sexual Abuse: the Challenges, Fears and how to Heal:
Here is a link to an article I had published in 2018 about how the way the brain remembers trauma affects how the survivor will remember...
Andrew Keefe
Jan 29, 20191 min read
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Health in Mind & Body: Exercise as a Treatment for Depression, and taking the first steps.
Here is a link to the first article I had published on this subject: I'll be writing more about this in the future but this is a good...
Andrew Keefe
Jan 28, 20191 min read
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Loneliness
That wide, empty, vacant, painful space. In the centre of your life, or the space around you. Miles and endless miles between you and the...
Andrew Keefe
Jan 23, 20195 min read
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Brexit, Anger and the Challenges of Compromise.
This is not an article about Brexit! I promise it does not discuss or advocate any particular position and I don't tell you where I stand...
Andrew Keefe
Jan 23, 20191 min read
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How are your New Year's Resolutions going?
We are nine days into 2019 and like many people, you may have resolved to do something differently in the New Year, to start something or...
Andrew Keefe
Jan 9, 20196 min read
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Walking can lift your mood. Just that.
There is growing evidence that #exercise can help treat #depression: the #NHS recommends at least three thirty minute sessions of...
Andrew Keefe
Dec 29, 20183 min read
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Fairy Tale of New York.....
I'm sure you'll know this beautiful #Christmas song by the #Pogues. In this article, I explain why its my favourite #Christmassong...
Andrew Keefe
Dec 17, 20181 min read
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Escaping Trauma: recovering from trauma when you have been deliberately targeted.
Any #trauma , including a natural disaster like an earthquake or a random accident can be really hard to move on from, but there is...
Andrew Keefe
Nov 28, 20184 min read
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