{"id":401,"date":"2024-02-01T13:54:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T13:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/?p=401"},"modified":"2024-02-01T13:54:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T13:54:23","slug":"like-learning-a-new-language-2-2-2-2-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/01\/like-learning-a-new-language-2-2-2-2-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Therapeutic Power of Personal Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]\n\nSelf-Reflection and Awareness:\n\nIn counselling, self-reflection is a cornerstone of personal growth. Embracing accountability encourages you to delve deep into your own motivations, values, and behaviours. This introspective journey, guided by a counsellor, can lead to heightened self-awareness, a critical component of therapeutic progress.\n\nTaking Ownership of Personal Narratives:\n\nClients often bring a variety of life experiences into counselling sessions. Accountability allows them to take ownership of their narratives, reframing stories of victimhood into tales of resilience and empowerment. This shift in perspective can be a powerful catalyst for healing.\n\nAccountability and Therapeutic Relationships\n\nBuilding Trust and Rapport:\n\nTrust is foundational in any counselling relationship. When clients witness their counsellors\u2019 embracing accountability, it sets a precedent for an open and honest therapeutic alliance. This trust becomes the foundation upon which transformative work can occur.\n\nEncouraging Responsibility in the Therapeutic Process:\n\nCounselling is a collaborative journey, with clients actively engaged in their own healing. Accountability within this context means encouraging clients to take an active role in the therapeutic process, fostering a sense of responsibility for their growth and well-being.\n\nNavigating Setbacks and Celebrating Progress:\n\nTherapy is not a linear path, and setbacks are a natural part of the process. A counselling lens on accountability involves helping clients navigate setbacks with resilience and compassion. Likewise, acknowledging and celebrating incremental progress fosters a positive therapeutic atmosphere.\n\nCounselling and Life Coaching sessions can be booked by email helenakoleary@gmail.com<\/a> or by phoning 089 2243437\n\n\n\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Self-Reflection and Awareness: In counselling, self-reflection is a cornerstone of personal growth. Embracing accountability encourages you to delve deep into your own motivations, values, and behaviours. This introspective journey, guided by a counsellor, can lead to heightened self-awareness, a critical component of therapeutic progress. Taking Ownership of Personal Narratives: Clients often bring a variety of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"\n

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Self-talk is the internal dialogue that runs through your head every day and can be positive or negative in nature. The language we use with ourselves can have profound effects on mood, health, happiness, motivation, worldview, and achievement of goals. Performance and success are enormously impacted by the way in which we talk to ourselves. Doesn\u2019t it stand to reason that we need to bring this knowledge to the micro-level of our everyday lives in order to improve self-care and well being?<\/p>\n\n\n\n


In a 2022 study published in Psychophysiology, a peer reviewed journal, it was found that manipulating self-talk alters hormonal response patterns and affects respiratory and cardiovascular health as well as influence motivation and outcome of tasks undertaken. Furthermore, by developing an awareness of how we address the self, we flip a switch in the cerebral cortex which is the centre of thought, and another in the amygdala which is the seat of fear. This will move us closer to or further from our sense of self and all its emotional intensity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Positive self-talk tips: Identify automatic thoughts and unhelpful beliefs\/behaviours\u200b and reality check these thoughts, to speak to yourself as you would speak to a friend and remember that everyone makes mistakes.<\/p>\n","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenaoleary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}