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Welcome to the podcast on Recovery from Coercive Control, a podcast that tries to unpack how coercive control impacts mental health, what psychology can teach us about recovery, and how to promote healing to build a hopeful future. Your host Dr Saira Khan is a psychologist and a human rights advocate based in London. As well as specialising in mental health and recovery from trauma, Saira has a lived experience of coercive control, so she knows how important and misunderstood this topic is.
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Please note this practice should only be done if you have practiced mindfulness for some time. Saira has created these mindfulness practices for you to try. You're best starting with the shorter ones. And just bring them in a few times a week. It can be hard breaking the patterns of our lives to begin spending time doing these exercises, but it is …
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Saira has created these mindfulness practices for you to try. You're best starting with the shorter ones. And just bring them in a few times a week. It can be hard breaking the patterns of our lives to begin spending time doing these exercises, but it is worth the trouble. Your mind is going to wander during these practices. Don't worry, it's what …
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Saira has created these mindfulness practices for you to try. You're best starting with the shorter ones. And just bring them in a few times a week. It can be hard breaking the patterns of our lives to begin spending time doing these exercises, but it is worth the trouble. Your mind is going to wander during these practices. Don't worry, it's what …
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Saira has created these mindfulness practices for you to try. You're best starting with the shorter ones. And just bring them in a few times a week. It can be hard breaking the patterns of our lives to begin spending time doing these exercises, but it is worth the trouble. Your mind is going to wander during these practices. Don't worry, it's what …
  continue reading
 
Saira has created these mindfulness practices for you to try. You're best starting with the shorter ones. And just bring them in a few times a week. It can be hard breaking the patterns of our lives to begin spending time doing these exercises, but it is worth the trouble. Your mind is going to wander during these practices. Don't worry, it's what …
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Saira has created these mindfulness practices for you to try. You're best starting with the shorter ones. And just bring them in a few times a week. It can be hard breaking the patterns of our lives to begin spending time doing these exercises, but it is worth the trouble. Your mind is going to wander during these practices. Don't worry, it's what …
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After a crisis everything can feel like a big ball of distress. Everything feels as though it is spilling out and it can be hard to make sense of what is happening internally. To help with this Saira uses mindfulness. In this episode she explains what mindfulness is and why it's so helpful in recovery from a psychological perspective. Of course as …
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Much of the research around survivors of coercive control is grim and dark according to Saira. So in this episode she is sharing her thoughts around post-traumatic growth. Of course survivors, including Saira herself, have been through grim and dark times but they also have a real strength. Having said that it's important to note that post-traumati…
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For people on the outside of abusive relationships it can be very confusing to see survivors return to the person who has harmed them. And it's often confusing for the survivor too, this desire or urge to go back to the person who has hurt them. In this episode Saira examines why this might happen. Harlow YouTube Video - This is the monkey experime…
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Recovery from coercive control is possible. In this episode Saira explores how she works with survivors and the stages of recovery. Of course every survivor has their own story and it's not fair to generalise across everybody's experience but there are similarities in how people do recover. Saira's work with survivors is based on Judith Herman and …
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The first step in recovery is understanding what has happened to you. The next is making sense of what has happened to you, before you accepting that this has actually happened. And you can't start that first step until you know what coercive control actually is. In this episode Saira explores what coercive control is so you can recognise it happen…
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Saira Khan is a psychologist and a human rights advocate. Her area of interest is in mental health and recovery from trauma. She's also has lived experience of coercive control. In this episode Saira introduces herself and explains why she has created this podcast series. We hope this podcast has been helpful in your journey to understanding what h…
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