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Dan Roberts

@danrobertstherapy.bsky.social

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Psychotherapist, Writer & Teacher 🔸 Internal Family Systems & Schema Therapist 🔸 Helping people heal from childhood trauma 🔸 Meditation Teacher for Insight Timer 🔸 Working for a kinder, more compassionate world More about me: danroberts.com

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Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thank you for reading this – and sending love to you, as well as every man, woman and child in #Gaza right now.

Dan ❤️

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Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 23h

One of the key ideas in IFS is unburdening. This is the release of painful thoughts, beliefs, emotions and memories held in the brain, body and nervous system.

#trauma #IFS #mindfulness #therapy #psychology #mentalhealth #danroberts

Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 4d

How can you learn to hold your young parts with open-hearted awareness?

You could explore this in your journal. Start by asking yourself: Which feelings do you commonly push away? Many people struggle with anger, often for good reasons, so you may exile angry thoughts or feelings. ✍️

Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 4d

Next time you feel anxious, angry, lonely or upset, try this.

This often helps tension dissipate, in a simple, patient way, rather than trying to get rid of the feeling quickly.

#trauma #IFS #mindfulness #therapy #psychology #mentalhealth #danroberts

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Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 5d

Next time you feel anxious, angry, lonely or upset, try closing your eyes and breathing deeply, in through your nose and out through your mouth. Let your belly rise and fall with each breath.

#trauma #IFS #mindfulness #therapy #psychology #mentalhealth #danroberts

Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 6d

When we find a hurt young part, our natural tendency is to work hard to fix them or push for some kind of healing.

This doesn’t tend to work, as you will know if you have ever been upset and your partner tried hard to fix you, rather than patiently listening and giving you a big hug.

Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 7d

Whether the clouds are fluffy and benign or fizzing with intense emotion and lightning, they pass across the infinite sky, which is not harmed in any way.

Think of the sky as awareness, spacious enough to hold any experience, positive or negative, with a loving, balanced presence. 🌤️

Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 10d

Embrace your inner child! Loving Little Me t-shirts and hoodies are available now 🪷

Visit my store: www.danroberts.com/merch/p/lovi...

#trauma #IFS #mindfulness #therapy #psychology #mentalhealth #danroberts

Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 11d

Accepting and turning towards my suffering with patience, tolerance and compassion is a path I have been walking for many years. Alongside my IFS therapy and day-to-day meditation practice, my suffering has greatly reduced over time.

If it has worked for me, it can work for you too. ❤️

Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 12d

Introducing my new IFS Collection!

Based on the 8 Cs, the core qualities of Self in the Internal Family Systems model, my new t-shirts and hoodies showcase designs including: Calm, Curiosity, Compassion, Confidence, Creativity and Connectedness.

Browse the full collection here: lnkd.in/ervy7A4H

Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 13d

We may be prone to hatred and anger, but we are also wired to love, to connect, to live in community with others.

This atomised urban life is so new and unfamiliar – barely 200 years old, which is the blink of an eye in human history. ❤️‍�

#trauma #IFS #mindfulness #therapy #psychology

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Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 17d

I know how painful anxiety can be. But Buddhists have understood for 2,500 years that the more we can accept impermanence, embrace change rather than kicking against it, the less we will suffer and calmer we will feel. ✍️✨

Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 19d

We all need to learn how to embrace change, rather than fighting against it.

This idea of impermanence applies on the grandest scale – even our galaxy, the Milky Way, will eventually merge with other galaxies, its planets and stars scattered into new formations.

Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 19d

Most people don’t like change. We want things to stay the same, especially if we feel calm and comfortable with our world as it is.

The Buddha taught that this is an illusion, uniquely created in the human mind. Because nothing stays the same, everything around you is in a state of flux & change. 🧘

Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 20d

Have you seen my new merch designs?

All income generated goes towards offering low-cost therapy and other resources to those who may need them.

You can browse my store here: lnkd.in/eqNHHgDm

#trauma #IFS #mindfulness #therapy #psychology #mentalhealth #danroberts

Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 21d

It’s normal for our mood to shift as it gets colder and darker, so if you’re feeling down right now, sending you warm thoughts, as I know from personal experience how hard that can be. 🍂

#trauma #IFS #mindfulness #therapy #psychology #mentalhealth #danroberts

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Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 24d

The more you think about little you, the better they will feel, the stronger that internal attachment becomes and the easier it is to self-soothe when you’re feeling stressed, upset, anxious, lonely or any other painful feeling. 🩵

#trauma #IFS #mindfulness #therapy #psychology #mentalhealth

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Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 25d

It seems to me we are having a paradigm shift in psychology, which is to understand that we are all many selves – young parts like your inner child, and protective parts, like your Worrier, who try to stop that small, sensitive, vulnerable part of you getting hurt, rejected, criticised or attacked.

Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 26d

I know from many years of my own therapy that, to heal from my childhood trauma, I must heal the part who experienced that trauma in the first place – and that’s Little Dan. 💚

#trauma #IFS #mindfulness #therapy #psychology #mentalhealth #danroberts

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Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 27d

Hi there, I’ve just signed the petition below calling for the boycotting of Eurovision unless Israel is banned. Will you add your name too and then share it far and wide? 38d.gs/qh_c

Sign the petition: tell the BBC to boycott Eurovision unless Israel is banned

This is big: Spain's state broadcasters have said they'll boycott Eurovision unless Israel is banned. We need the BBC to do the same to up the pressure on the competition's bosses. Sign the petition n...

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Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 27d

I am a tall 57-year-old man and sometimes I feel like a 6 year old kid, small and wobbly, unable to speak up or fight back when I’m feeling unconfident or under attack. That’s when the part I call Little Dan has blended with me, in IFS terminology, taking me over so there is no me there, just him. ❤️‍

Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 28d

10 years on from the Dieselgate scandal, justice still hasn’t been served in the UK. While other countries made carmakers pay, ours let them off the hook. Sign the petition now and demand accountability now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ma...

Make polluters pay for poisoning our children

10 years ago it was revealed that many diesel cars were being fitted with illegal technology that means they emit levels of toxic gases (NOx) exceeding testing and legal limits. These emissions poison...

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Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 28d

Camp Chef: From my Kitchen to Gaza’s Kid’s chuffed.org/project/1454...

Camp Chef: From my Kitchen to Gaza’s Kid’s

Preparing food has always been my favorite love language.

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Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · 29d

Dr Carl Jung, one of the founding fathers of psychology, wrote about the Child archetype, which consisted of memories and emotions from each stage of a person’s childhood development. This idea laid the foundations for what we now call the inner child. 👶

#trauma #IFS #mindfulness#psychology

Dan Roberts @danrobertstherapy.bsky.social · Sep 19

I just signed the @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social petition calling on Labour’s Conference Arrangements Committee to allow party delegates a debate on ending the two-child benefit limit.

We must tackle the scourge of child poverty. Sign the petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/la...

Labour must choose differently on child poverty

In a country as wealthy as the UK, allowing child poverty to deepen is a political choice. Labour must choose differently. Sign the petition below calling on the Conference Arrangements Committee t...

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