Many factors can influence our emotional patterns. By processing underlying feelings and reducing defence we can often start to live less impeded and burdened in the world.

All to often we carry negative thoughts and emotions regarding our internal value. By shifting our perspective and cultivating self-empowerment or self-compassion we can start to rewrite this shame script.

With so many distractions and anxieties our self-organization can be easily disrupted. Detachment and dissociation can be common. Conversely, the nervous system can become overly rigid and constricted. Therapy aims to integrate, stabilise, and cultivate clearer states from which to function.

One of the key focal points of recent therapies has been to build attachment security, recognise our attachment patterns, and increase our repertoire of stable relating. When we come from a place of true internal security relationality is simplified. We cease to collide, detach, and avoid.

Old behavioural patterns and repertoires can often act to derail who we are, our relationships, and careers. Unless we work through underlying emotions and experience we tend to re-enact these old patterns.

This section overlaps with a number of other sections above. Often therapy involves unpacking and processing historic wounds and patterns. But this is never the end point we want to cultivate resilience, growth, and strength to move forward purposefully in life.