Stress Management – for Family and Friends of people with an SCI 2

This is Week 2 of a series of talks on Stress Management for family members, friends and carers of people with a spinal cord injury.  The series runs for 7 weeks and you are free to attend all seven or just the ones that suit you.  Each talk is stand alone but people will benefit from doing the entire course.

Talk 2 – Why do I think and respond to stress differently than my colleagues?

• explore how we perceive things and how this effects how we behave even as a carer
• begin to put a microscope on our inner world and challenge the four sub-personalities that lead into stress

CRITIC – VICTIM – PERFECTIONIST – WORRIER

Why do I keep repeating patterns that no longer work for me?

• Sometimes these are only mal adaptive coping techniques to manage early developmental stages.  When these are triggered in our present world all memories around this theme are activated and we react as if the past is the present with the same mal adaptive coping technique
• Identifying is the first stage in dealing with these patterns and then we will learn how to stand back and do things differently.  Working with the template of challenging our automatic thought patterns.

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