by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Counselling
Surprise covid alerts If you were in New Zealand in August 2020 you know that we’ve had these alerts and that things are happening covid-wise in New Zealand. Did you get alerts on your phone? I got one last night and I’ve had four this morning and they...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Art Therapy, childhood trauma, Counselling, Depression, Finding myself
The miracle question There is a counselling approach called Solution Focused Therapy and one of the techniques that they use in this counseling approach is called the miracle question. This question is a life changer. And I sometimes accidentally say the golden...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Art Therapy, Counselling, Depression, Finding myself
About focus and positive thinking Do you know how a camera works? How you can focus a camera? You know you turn the front or, you know, you push a button on your phone or whatever. Anyway what happens is that you can choose which part of what you see will be in sharp...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Art Therapy, childhood trauma, Counselling, Depression, Finding myself
I’m going to talk to you about free writing. Now I don’t know who came up with this term. I didn’t. It’s not my thing. I learned it from my sister Shelly in a creative writing class she taught. Some people call it stream of consciousness...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Counselling
A trick from a friend Today we’re talking about anxiety and a little trick I learned from a friend. Yes here’s a little trick from me, an anxiety counsellor in NZ. She heard this from a podcast called choiceology or something like that. I have yet to...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Art Therapy, Counselling, Depression
Hi! It feels like a long time since I’ve talked to you but it probably isn’t for you! Recently I followed through on something I mentioned in a previous video and I attempted to go up the Hakarimatas with my daughter. And it was an interesting experience!...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Art Therapy, childhood trauma, Counselling, Depression
s I’m a different kind of counsellor. Lots of counsellors are very particular about what personal information they share and I am very particular about how I do that, but I don’t hesitate to share my personal things, if it’s relevant. And in this...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Art Therapy, childhood trauma, Counselling, Depression, Finding myself
Who are you? Who are you really? Not who did your parents raise you to be? Not who does your family, friends, children expect you to be? But who are you actually? Feeling lost? Think about questions like these When you are feeling lost and confused, we often think we...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Art Therapy, Counselling, Depression, Finding myself
Lessons from the art journal Hi everyone! This is Dione and I’m gonna show you another page from my art journal and just have a little talk. This is, I think, a really powerful question that I invite you to ask yourself. No pressure to act, just notice You...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Art Journalling, Art Therapy, Counselling, Depression, Finding myself
I’m flicking through my art journal as you may know. You might have seen some other videos from this moment and this clothing and this boring gray background. And I found a quote. A favourite quote on a not favourite art journal page The page is not that pretty...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Counselling, Depression, Finding myself
Hey everyone, this is Dione and one thing I’ve noticed since I’ve been putting videos out into the social media world, is that the ones that were about art journaling are very popular so, you know as a good online marketer, I should do more of what’s...
by Dione Davies | Anxiety, Art Therapy, Counselling, Depression
Hey everyone. I was just talking to my daughter. I’m not sure if I’m allowed to use her name on here, but she did give me permission to tell the story. So the story goes She said: I wish I could draw faces like this! And I said: Have you tried? And she...
