Dr Jo Johnson 🌱

🌱 Clinical Psychologist & EMDR therapist

🌱 Grow & heal

[Dr Jo Johnson 🌱 @growthPsy]

I use EMDR therapy to help people who have had
challenging experiences to:

⚡️process the overwhelm
☀️regain balance
✨feel calm, prepared & equipped.

[Dr Jo Johnson 🌱 @growthPsy]

Are you actually bad at that thing, or just really self-critical?

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An encouraging poem.

[Dr Jo Johnson 🌱 @growthPsy]

"Failure is a greater teacher than success"

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

[Dr Jo Johnson 🌱 @growthPsy]

"Failure is a greater teacher than success"

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

[Dr Jo Johnson 🌱 @growthPsy]

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach."

From Do Not Lose Heart, We Were Made for These Times © 2001, 2016
Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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Some words of encouragement from Clarissa Pinkola Estés:

"In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world.
Do not focus on that.
Do not make yourself ill with overwhelm.

[Dr Jo Johnson 🌱 @growthPsy]

There is a tendency to fall into being weakened by perseverating on what is outside your reach...by what cannot yet be.
Do not focus there.
That is spending the wind without raising the sails...

[Dr Jo Johnson 🌱 @growthPsy]

Crows feet / crinkly eyes are one of the ultimate cues of safety.

The nervous system picks up on it in milliseconds.

The sign of a genuine smile.

Give your crows feet some love today! 😄❤️

[Dr Jo Johnson 🌱 @growthPsy]

Crows feet / crinkly eyes are one of the ultimate cues of safety.

The nervous system picks up on it in milliseconds.

The sign of a genuine smile.

Give your crows feet some love today! 😄❤️

[Dr Jo Johnson 🌱 @growthPsy]

Well, we all know horses are amazing creatures.

What I didn't know - until this week - is what it is like to have therapy from them...

Blog post here:
https://t.co/170Ivb9Qbi

[Dr Jo Johnson 🌱 @growthPsy]

From "The Well" by David Whyte:

But the miracle had come simply
from allowing yourself to know
that you had found it, that this time
someone walking out into the clear air
from far inside you had decided not to walk
past it any more; the miracle had come

[Dr Jo Johnson 🌱 @growthPsy]

Why we get prickly when we get close to people: what porcupines teach us about intimacy.

Blog post here:
https://t.co/NPOlvLRZUY

[Dr Jo Johnson 🌱 @growthPsy]

Why we get prickly when we get close to people: what porcupines teach us about intimacy.

Blog post here:
https://t.co/NPOlvLRZUY

[Dr Jo Johnson 🌱 @growthPsy]

From "The Well" by David Whyte:

But the miracle had come simply
from allowing yourself to know
that you had found it, that this time
someone walking out into the clear air
from far inside you had decided not to walk
past it any more; the miracle had come

[Dr Jo Johnson 🌱 @growthPsy]

@live4ever______ @Siv_0007 💚

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https://t.co/5mMbXHnM6u!

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Good news for doodlers!

✍️

Doodling and sketching really *does* help you listen and retain information better

Students who doodled recalled 29% more content than those who did not

They were not aware their memory would be tested ahead of time

(Study by Andrade, 2009)

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@TypicalTweeter 🙌

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@live4ever______ @Siv_0007 Congratulations! I'm wishing you all the best with it, and remember to rest after the sessions if you can :)

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Cancelling my Premium account.

I'll still be me, but no blue checkmark!