Mark Baxter

chronic mental health conditions that they've had for quite a long time and haven't responded to many treatments, we often need to sort of go back to some earlier experiences and make sense of those, but also process them in a way where their current here and now life changes.

Yeah, and nervous system stress isn't always about what's happening here and now.

Often we're looking around, like what's happening in work and life and relationships, and sometimes that makes a lot of sense.

But as often, we're being unconsciously activated and triggered by certain conditions in the environment and in what's happening that's bringing up old stuff.

And that can be really underneath our conscious awareness.

And so part of what we're doing in therapy too is trying to open our consciousness and our awareness to start to see this old stuff showing up.

And once we see it, we can describe it, we can feel into it, we can kind of work with it a little bit.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, there's lots of stuff.

And I'm not sort of wedded to therapy so much.

I mean, I think that's one aspect of how people can get help.

And there's a lot of different therapists and psychologists and there's a lot of different therapy types.

Like I encourage people to, you know, try and see what works for them and to shift and move if it's not working.

Yeah.

But also life is therapy.

Like there's so many different ways to engage in life.

You know, you saw my black eye today.

We were laughing about, you know, because I practice Brazilian jujitsu as one of my self-help things.

And plus, I just love the sport.