Dr. Sinead Lynch

And this is how you do it.

You use your body to calm your mind.

Yes, very helpful.

So over the six weeks, we also learned compassionate tools.

So again, that's just it's difficult sometimes for people because like that we have this stress response centre.

It's natural.

It's the amygdala gets fired up.

And what we then try to do is try to build this soothing centre, imagining that there's a soothing centre in your brain.

And with compassionate work, that is what you're building in.

So there's a lot of visualisation.

There's a lot of understanding psychologically, as Anne said, the psycho-ed around why are we tough on ourselves?

What's this drive system within us that makes us keep going, keep fighting?

And why is that unhelpful sometimes?

So there is a lot of learning and education.

But I suppose one of the tools that I would share today comes from Bruce Perry's and it's three R's.

And really, the first one is that regulate education.

So regulate yourself whenever you feel anxious or nervous or whenever you could be in a waiting room or before you're going in for a scan.

So think about regulating yourself.

Think about if I often say to patients, if a child came to you and they were very upset and they were terrified, what would you do to them?

You'd hug them.