Lifting your Mood — Blog by Karin Peeters - Vitalis Coaching & Therapy

How does your nervous system work and how to self-regulate your fight, flight, fawn and freeze responses with the help of Polyvagal Theory.

Reduce Stress and Anxiety, Lifting your MoodKarin PeetersApril 11, 2024techniques, anxiety, polyvagal, theory, therapy, ladder, nervous system, exercises, Deb Dana, stephen porges, stress, trauma, freeze, fight, flight, fawn

Let’s get emotional! How to build our emotional vocabulary?

How to figure out how we feel about something? And how to express emotions in words? Let’s expand our emotional vocabulary with feeling words, so we can name our experiences and improve our connection with ourselves and others.

Lifting your Mood, Loving Relationships, Reduce Stress and AnxietyKarin PeetersMarch 19, 2024emotions, feelings, wheel, list, understand, meaning, definition, vocabulary, language, words, chart, examples

The best spirituality books to read that will change your life - recommended by a Spiritual Coach & Psychotherapist

Recommended psychological self-help reads for the spiritually curious. There’s a whole variety of suggestions from lighter reads to more soul searching offerings.

Slowly does it during the winter months

How can we naturally embrace slowing down pace in winter, without feeling as if we’re getting depressed?

Lifting your Mood, Reduce Stress and AnxietyKarin PeetersDecember 16, 2021coaching, therapy, psychotherapy, depression, depressed, winter, winter months, treatment, name, vitamins, survive, how to stop winter depression, light, lamp

What's the colour of the traffic light of your life?

A simple coaching tool that uses the colours of a traditional traffic light to represent how you're feeling and how you can react to any given situation.