Life Beyond Lockdown
5 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -The COVID-19 crisis has changed life for many of us as we know it. Most of us have experienced or are experiencing an extensive lockdown and all the uncertainty that comes with that. Over the next few episodes, Trauma Therapist Adele Theron will explore the various aspects of lockdown and life beyond it as she examines how to handle mass uncertainty when our brains and nervous systems kick into overdrive, how to manage our personal relationships and not blow them up, how to navigate tensions in relationships and knowing if and when to blow things up, navigating beginnings and endings, handling uncertainty with finance and work and changes which may happen to your livelihood and how to build a plan for life beyond lockdown so that you exit with resilience, having stitched a brand new garment for your life. So if you are interested in tips and tools for resiliency and handling life inside and after lockdown, this is the podcast is for you!
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Episodes
How to Initiate endings and bring about new beginnings in our lives beyond lockdown
July 05, 2020 23:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBIn business, relationships, health, wealth and in life, people must decide whether to keep fixing something that isn’t working or to let it go. Lockdown has been a time where our lives slowed down and we got to examine what we really wanted to generate for our future. Some changes were initiated for us in being made redundant, going on furlough or in leaving a business or relationship BUT what about the endings we know we should initiate and are too afraid to initiate? Growth demands change,...
How to handle it when stress is killing your relationship
June 08, 2020 02:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MBIn this episode, Trauma Therapist Adele Theron delves into the role our hormones and stress levels play in hijacking us from our loved ones. We are wired differently as men and women and our differences are intensified by stress. The fact that we deal with stress differently, means it's really important to know what type of support is needed when stressed. I examine the specific mix of actions you can take to reduce those hormones in women vs. men. Instead of resisting, resenting and reject...
How to rekindle love and desire with your partner during lockdown
May 23, 2020 00:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBLockdown has created alot of stress and pressure for couples. So many people are finding the groundhog day and endless 'sameness' is wreaking havoc on personal relationships. Now that the novelty of the experience has worn off, people need new skills to cope. In today's podcast, Relationship and Divorce expert Adele talks about the 6 critical signs to watch out for which can spell the end of a relationship or indicate a relationships which is teetering on the edge. She talks about how to ste...
How to handle Scratchiness, Anger and strong emotions during lockdown and in life beyond lockdown
May 04, 2020 02:00 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MBWe don't know about you but we have noticed something shift in the past few weeks as people start to become more and more irritated and scratchy during lockdown. The groundhog-dayness of this is starting to get to people. This giant experimental pressure cooker is pulsating more and more and as Trauma Counsellors we totally understand if you are starting to lose the will to live. Many clients are in this space with more arguments surfacing, houses starting to move into disarray and marriages...
How to handle the stress, anxiety and uncertainty of lockdown
April 22, 2020 22:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBWe are going through unprecedented uncertainty within this global COVID19 crisis. In this episode we set the scene and explain why some people appear to be "aceing" the lockdown, whilst many of us experience bouts of anxiety, stress and depression. Alot of how we are handling the lockdown has nothing to do with us personally, it has to do with how our brain handles trauma, uncertainty and massively stressful events. We cover topics such as: 1) How our brains and bodies handle uncertainty an...