Instead of focusing on dealing with a specific feeling in this blog entry, I want to discuss self-talk. Self-talk is the things you tell yourself inwardly, although you might say them out loud sometimes as well. "I'm kind" or "I'm intelligent" are examples, but so is telling yourself "I never do anything right. I'm useless. I'm a bad person." I use...
What's Happening
Bullying in Carlisle
As part of the #Listen project funded by the Lottery Community fund, and as part of one of our short films "An Investigation into Bullying in Carlisle", the results of our survey below aim to help the Young People part of the group fig...
Dealing with Fear
Most of the exercises I suggested in the blog entry about for dealing with anger will calm you down when you're feeling scared as well. However, there are some specific exercises that can help you manage fear, which I will share here. You might want to practice the exercises in this blog entry several times before trying them out while you're feeli...
Fear and the Amygdala
In the previous blog entry, we looked at anger as a response to bullying. Anger can sometimes be a relatively easy feeling to have, something that hurts us less than other challenging emotions do. In other words, anger can be masking a different emotion. One of the emotions it could be masking is fear. Bullies are scary. Some of them are bigger tha...