Each day is an opportunity to begin again, to start where I am

"It is our collective ethical obligation as practitioners to bring reasonable hope, a believe-inhope, an embodied hope to our relational work with clients, and not to steal the hope they have." According to Vikki Reynolds, being able to hold people at the centre of our practice; stay with connection; and resist disconnection and enmeshment, empowers us to resist burnout and create sustainability. 

Inspiring believed-in-hope as an ethical position: Vicarious resistance & justice-doing: 

“The first law of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else.” 

The living mountain by Nan Shepherd, 1st pub. 1977

"Our values and principles point to who we are and fuel our resilience in the face of adversity, the way weeds come through cracks in concrete." 

'Therapy that breaks the heart' in Afuape, T. (2011). Power, resistance and liberation in therapy with survivors of trauma: To have our hearts broken (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi-org.ezproxy.uws.edu.au/10.4324/9780203806401

"if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet when we don’t close off and we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings”

Healing the fragmented selves of trauma survivors: Overcoming internal self-alienation by Janina Fisher,  2017

"the therapist leads in process but not in content, always learning from the client what emotional learnings are present and what is occurring at each point in the process of their transformation" 

Unlocking the emotional brain: Memory reconsolidation and the psychotherapy of transformational change by Bruce Ecker, Robin Ticic and Laurel Hulley, 2024, p.77

The RELEASE consumers toolkit has been co-designed with people with lived experience of long-term antidepressant use and GPs..Resources include information brochures (Stopping antidepressants, How family and friends can help), a Decision aid, and Tapering plans for 15 commonly prescribed antidepressants, including ‘slower’, ‘even slower’ and ‘faster’ versions for most antidepressants.  

The RELEASE consumers toolkit has been co-designed with people with lived experience of long-term antidepressant use and GPs..Resources include information brochures (Stopping antidepressants, How family and friends can help), a Decision aid, and Tapering plans for 15 commonly prescribed antidepressants, including ‘slower’, ‘even slower’ and ‘faster’ versions for most antidepressants.