Any wellness practice can be healthy or harmful depending on if youre using it as self care or pseudo-regulators.
Heres how to tell.
Likewise, seeing friends and family could bring joy for some, while it could be painful for others.
It all comes down to whether the activities in question are functioning as self care or pseudo-regulators.
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Theyre also meant to help us cope with emotions and needs that have gone unmet.
Cicely Horsham-Brathwaite, PhD, is a psychologist and founder of Brathwaite Psychological Consulting.
The thing with pseudo-regulators is that they rarely help us feel better.
What they do often is make the problem worse because the need that we have isnt actually being met.
Mistaking pseudo-regulators for self-care practices is more common than you may think.
Its just a matter of knowing which activities are pseudo-regulators.
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Many of the things I suggest around self care seem so simple, she says.
Write down what youre doing for self care and how you felt afterward.
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