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Joey Remenyi talks with Caitlin Hughes and Teena Mogler, Social Workers based in Australia.
Topics and themes discussed include:
What is masking?
Camouflaging - Strategies used to blend into our social surroundings, or present ourselves as different from who we are.
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- Compensation — Strategies used to actively compensate for difficulties in social situations. Examples: copying body language and facial expressions.
- Masking — Strategies used to hide characteristics or portray a non-autistic/ADHD persona. Examples: adjusting face and body to appear confident and/or relaxed.
- Assimilation — Strategies used to try to fit in with others in social situations. Examples: Putting on an act.
Pressure to conform to social norms can come from various sources like social and cultural contexts, academic settings, work environments, and personal circumstances.
What is authenticity?
- Acceptance of your differences is the first step towards being authentically oneself. It's about embracing your unique traits and experiences, and sharing them with the world.
- Being authentic is an essential aspect of your identity and helps foster good mental health and healthy relationships with others.
What are some common traps and patterns that we can find ourselves in that lead to more masking and feed a cycle of masking?
- People pleasing
- Perfectionism
How can we gently and tenderly practice more authenticity in our lives?
- Acknowledging and accepting your differences without judgement.
- Surround yourself with supportive and understanding individuals who appreciate you for who you are.
- Practice self-care and self-love, prioritising your own needs and boundaries.
- Engage in activities that bring you joy and allow you to express yourself freely.
Why does it matter (psychological and physiological harm)?
- Masking can result in burnout, exhaustion, and lowered self-esteem.
- Concealing one's true self can contribute to mental health problems like anxiety and depression.
- Being unable to be authentic can cause a persistent feeling of discomfort, disconnection, and disorientation.
- It can also lead to social isolation and difficulty forming meaningful relationships.
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Learn more about Caitlin Hughes & Teena Mogler, and their podcast: Divergent Dialogues:
Podcast: Divergent Dialogues
https://divergentdialogues.substack.com/
Caitlin Hughes
Cathartic Collaborations
https://catharticcollaborations.com.au/
Social media: @cathartic.collaborations
Teena Mogler
Balance Centre for Mental Health
https://www.balancecentreformentalhealth.com.au/
Social media: @balancecentreformentalhealth -
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Joey Remenyi from Seeking Balance International talks with Charlotte Byrnes, an osteopath and pain educator based in Australia, on reframing pain.
We talk about context, safety and danger, language, mirror neurons, changing science and more. What is pain? Why is pain protective?
Learn more about Joey: https://www.seekingbalance.com.au/
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Joey Remenyi from Seeking Balance International talks about why neurodivergent or chronic symptom folks can feel exhausted in daily life. How can we arrange our life and lifestyle to function at our average? Can we increase our awareness of functioning at our best too often and increasing the risk of burnout?
This is a neurodivergent affirming community.
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Joey Remenyi from Seeking Balance International answers a common question about avoiding, dismissing, denying or distracting ourselves from bodily sensations versus taking the NBD or NO BIG DEAL approach to our inner experience.
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Joey Remenyi from Seeking Balance International talks about the paradigm shift and philosophical difference between viewing sensations or symptoms. This is one way we can take our power back and get to know our body and its innate intelligence.
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Joey talks about the overall picture of our brain and what is happening as we experience fluctuating auditory function. It could be useful to consider your neurotype and understand how your brain and body process information. Learn about the executive brain function and 'administration desk' of your brain--this helps you to filter sounds and make sense of the world.
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Joey talks about what it means to listen to the body and respond to the interoceptive messages that we experience. Learn some simple examples of listening and responding, and learn where tinnitus fits into the overall process.
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Joey talks about how our brain organises information and sensory inputs and what sometimes we do not hear our tinnitus and our executive brain and admin team help to filter it out and lower its importance while attending to other neural inputs.
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Joey talks about understanding your body and brain when it comes to our stress cycles and our 'rest and digest' cycles. Learn about your parasympathetic nervous system as much as your sympathetic 'stress' response. Learn to cultivate desired sensations by knowing your joy, pleasure, desire and special interests.
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Joey talks about ADHD and tinnitus. Are medications helpful, harmful or somewhere in between? Are ADHD'ers more susceptible to tinnitus?
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Joey talks about the female menstrual cycle from the perspective of learning to listen to your body and to be reflective each month, to learn what is and is not working for you. She then talks about perimenopause and the process of reshaping ourselves during this time. It is a powerful time to deeply listen to the body and to honour boundaries. The body speaks loudest during hormonal life stages and this is an inner voice that we want to listen to.
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Joey talks about the process of being with ourselves when we need to pause, slow down and recuperate. What is our body teaching us and how do we capture the wisdom of the body as we spiral in and out of health (as all human beings do)?
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Joey talks about the limitations of prescribed generic vestibular exercises.
Learn to create your own neuroplasticity daily practices, to understand your body, your limits and capacity, and to keep your symptoms at a gentle intensity the whole way through using neuroplasticity.
Exacerbation of symptoms can lead to flight, fight, freeze, fawn 'fear response' and this negates healing with neuroplasticity. Being kind, gentle and listening to our body is a productive and more comfortable way to rebuild new neural pathways for vestibular function.
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Joey talks about why glasses may not be the 'linear' answer to your visual issues. Learn about how our brain processes visual inputs and why it is more of a complex and non-linear situation when it comes to chronic symptoms and neurodivergence.
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Joey talks about the The difference between identity and diagnostic labels. Many of my clients are given conflicting medical diagnostic labels and this can lead to even further debilitating confusion. When discussing neurotypes and neurodiversity, I am inviting you to step away from diagnosis and instead become curious about your brain processing style.
This is a conversation about identity: who are you and how do you experience the world? Why do you feel the way you do in a room, car, job, crowd?
There is a big difference between understanding one's self, as we are, with an accepted identity, and living with a medical label that you would rather change.
This is a big conversation and one that we can continue to explore together in the ROCKSTEADY Live Group Calls if you wish.
Learn more here: https://www.seekingbalance.com.au/rocksteady/ - Se mer