Locate yourself & Rise! Journaling for success, self awareness & stress relief I Sarah D Rees

Rivers to Resilience

Locate yourself & rise! Journaling for success, self awareness & stress relief.

In this episode, Martina Witter talks with Sarah Rees, a BABCP Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist and creator of The CBT Journal. She spent 15 years working for the NHS in almost every area of mental health care before taking a huge career turn after realising that she wanted to help people in a more impactful way. Today, Sarah creates powerful mental health tools and resources designed to help people help themselves and coaches other therapists so they can take their private practice to the next level.

Sarah Rees shares some insights on finding advantages in adversity, having a growth mindset, the role of resilience in life, how stress anchors help build personal resilience, and the benefits of sleep in our mental health. She also talks about the most instrumental things in building your resilience and how journaling and self-awareness enhances resilience. Tune in to learn more on this and other exciting topics!

Timestamps

[01:20] Sarah’s background information

[03:18] The role of resilience in Sarah’s life

[06:43] Building personal resilience

[07:32] Finding advantage in adversity

[11:14] The growth mindset

[13:45] The role of resilience in Sarah’s career success

[16:52] Building resilience workbook

[18:54] The benefits of stress anchors

[23:36] How journaling and self-awareness enhance resilience

[34:41] Building up your resilience muscles

[37:46] The most instrumental things in building your resilience

[42:21] The connection between the mind and the body

[46:03] What Sarah would say to her younger self

Quotes

• (04:35) Out of adversity comes resilience.
• (04:51) Resilience is being able to roll with life's punches, going with what life throws at you and bouncing back as quickly as possible.
• (19:29) We need to have stress anchors that ground us and constantly build our resilience.
• (21:04) The most important relationship we have is with ourselves. If we look after ourselves, everything falls into place.
• (22:43) A lot of research shows that if people are struggling, they don’t open up to their managers. So, managers must create that environment and safe space for their team.
• (27:44) With awareness of mind comes choice. When you know what your mind is doing, you have a choice of what you do with it.

Connect with Sarah Rees:

Website: https://sarahdrees.co.uk/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarahdrees.co.uk/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-rees-92553b63/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahdrees.co.uk/

Connect with me:

Website: https://www.raphatherapyservices.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rapha-therapy-services-limited

The book: Resilience In The Workplace

Blog - https://raphatherapyservices.com/blog/

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