The Role of Rest in Anxiety

"I've absolutely had the experience where clients have been sometimes given that band-aid response," she says. "It can feel oversimplified to just be like we'll do some deep breathing yes exactly and it doesn't feel very validating" She uses psychoeducation blurb as a way of explaining what's going on inside her body, which is often triggered by stress or trauma in an area such as depression but also physical changes too. 'This is not just how you're feeling but this is cortisol and adrenaline and all of this stuff that's being put into your body and leads to inflammation'