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Three steps to deal with intrusive thoughts with IFS (Internal Family Systems)

March 27, 2022 Alessio Rizzo
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Learn what intrusive thoughts are and 3 steps to deal with them from an IFS (Internal Family Systems) perspective

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In General Mental Health Tags IFS, protectors, Parts, anxiety, OCD
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3 steps to change your relationship with Anxiety Symptoms using IFS

May 12, 2021 Alessio Rizzo
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Learn how to begin healing anxiety symptoms with IFS in 3 steps.

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Tags anxiety, IFS, protectors, Self
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Productivity stress - the anxiety of overachievement from an IFS perspective

April 7, 2021 Alessio Rizzo
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Productivity

Is it healthy to be productive all the time?

IFS helps us understand the stress we feel when we cannot stop being over-productive. This article talks about polarised protective parts and explain how IFS offers a way forward to reduce stress.

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In General Mental Health Tags IFS, anxiety, protectors
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How to heal anxiety with IFS (Internal Family Systems) Therapy

February 9, 2021 Alessio Rizzo
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Heal Anxiety with IFS

Learn how IFS (Internal Family Systems) Therapy can give you the tools to deal with anxiety, procrastination and ambivalence by accessing your “inner system”

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In General Mental Health Tags anxiety, IFS, Trauma, procrastination, ambivalence
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Why you haven’t healed from anxiety yet and how IFS can help you

November 25, 2020 Alessio Rizzo
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Why you haven't healed from Anxiety yet

And how to use IFS to heal anxiety

Learn how to heal anxiety with IFS (Internal Family Systems) and who you have not healed from anxiety yet. Time for a change!

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In General Mental Health Tags anxiety, IFS, Healing
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OCD - what is it and what is in common among people suffering from it

November 17, 2020 Alessio Rizzo
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OCD creates incredible suffering. Here is what I have discovered after years of work on it.

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In General Mental Health Tags OCD, anxiety
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Covid-19 anxiety for people living away from their family

March 23, 2020 Alessio Rizzo
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This is what is means to live away from home during the spread of Corinavirus (Covid-19). The key is to hold on to hope and to care for each other.

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In General Mental Health, Channeled Article Tags coronavirus, covid-19, anxiety, hope

Corona virus (Covid-19) Anxiety

March 17, 2020 Alessio Rizzo
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We are going through unprecedented times. We have never been so connected to each other. It has never been easier to travel, share and communicate from one point of the globe to another, and this means it has never been easier to spread a virus.

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In General Mental Health, Channeled Article Tags anxiety, coronavirus, covid-19

Brexit Anxiety

October 24, 2019 Alessio Rizzo
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Learn how to face the uncertainty of Brexit. Understand what is causing your anxiety about Brexit.

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In General Mental Health Tags anxiety, Brexit
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Somatic Symptom Disorder

October 11, 2019 Alessio Rizzo
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Somatic Symptom Disorder treatment and features

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In General Mental Health Tags Somatic, Somatic Symptom Disorder, OCD, anxiety
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Can we really get rid of anxiety?

May 9, 2019 Alessio Rizzo
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It is usually difficult to pinpoint what anxiety is about, and this is exactly the point. Anxiety is a state of apprehension about something important that we think is likely to happen.

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In General Mental Health Tags anxiety
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Acknowledging our difficulties can turn anger and anxiety into self-compassion

May 1, 2019 Alessio Rizzo

Following our fast-spinning thoughts does not lead to any improvement of anger and anxiety. If we take an imaginary step outside of ourselves and look at what is happening to us from an outside point of view, we might realise how distressed we are.

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In General Mental Health Tags anger, anxiety
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Why anxiety is real

April 15, 2019 Alessio Rizzo
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When it comes to anxiety, depression, jealousy, anger, discomfort, we seem to forget what these things really are, and we invest all our efforts on eliminating them from our lives…

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In General Mental Health Tags anxiety
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Would you follow an anxiety and stress reduction diet?

March 18, 2019 Alessio Rizzo
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We, more or less, agree on the fact that, to be healthy, we need to keep our weight under control through diet and exercise.

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In General Mental Health Tags anxiety, stress
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Why anxiety happens

December 5, 2018 Alessio Rizzo
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At times we feel anxious for no particular reason and it is difficult to pinpoint what is going on. Instinctively we want to find out why anxiety happens, but where do we start from?

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In General Mental Health Tags anxiety
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Anxiety cure – do we have one? Can anxiety be cured?

September 3, 2018 Alessio Rizzo
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Many people suffer from anxiety, and to find an anxiety cure we need to look at both the medical and psychological worlds.

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In General Mental Health Tags anxiety
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Alessio Rizzo (He | They) MA, MSc

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