Even when caretakers work hard to keep children safe dangerous events happen and these can be unexpected and can affect the child without our conscious awareness, any event that is painful to a child, can lead to long term emotional and physical effects is a child hood trauma and indeed these experiences like bullying, physical, sexual and emotional abuse, war, violence at home, substance abuse can be detrimental to a child's development, leading to sleep disturbances, Anger/anger outbursts, affects the child's relationships even to adulthood. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/martha-apendi/message

They are principles or standards of behaviour that motivate us to behave in certain ways. Values inform our decision-making, and they influence our relationships and our overall well-being. Without we are probably lost. These are links you can access to understand your values with steps and directions https://motivationalinterviewing.org/value-card-sort-online-game 👆 this is one you can do with yourself, friends, family, and partner, make it interesting, it's not a test 😉. https://www.guilford.com/add/miller11_old/pers_val.pdf?t 👆 for mental health practitioners helpful for your sessions. Cheers! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/martha-apendi/message

Published this episode last year worth listening to. Joined with two experts @Kamara Nathan(comfort minds speaks) a mental health practitioner and @Moses Ssemakula a clinical psychologist sharing their thoughts on the statistics released by the Ministry Of Health where "14 million Ugandans have a mental disorder." You might be out there struggling though help is inadequate, it is available so do not stay silent let's fight stigma around mental health because treatment and support is available. Enjoy Adios! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/martha-apendi/message

It is never easy dealing with feelings of loss. We can also experience feelings of denial, frustration, guilt, anger when we believe we might experience loss or when we know that there is change that might happen just by knowing you've been diagnosed with cancer or any terminal illness or when you know that you're being moved to a different country, workplace or you're beginning a new journey in your life. "Grieving what we believe we might lose" --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/martha-apendi/message

Did you know that it isn't rare for an individual struggling with addiction have experienced trauma? Traumatic experience can have adverse effects on our well-being and the behaviour that will engage in or use as coping mechanisms to deal with the pain can in the long run be the problem. But how is that possible?, all the answers in this episode. Cheers! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/martha-apendi/message

How can you tell the difference between self esteem and narcissism? Are there times when you have though you were asked yourself whether you were portraying narcissistic tendencies?https://anchor.fm/martha-apendi/episodes/Could-it-be-being-self-confident-or-self-absorbed-e1faq4a here is the link to the episode on narcissism so that you can get more information. Cheers! Happy new week! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/martha-apendi/message

For many of us settings goals means staying away from some people. We always talk about setting boundaries but we never talk about how challenging it can be, to do something where we have to prioritize our feelings instead of the people we value, how we always try to manipulate the situations so that everything is always good, peaceful. But what we should ask ourselves is for how long can we really put up being people pleasers?, for how long are we going to keep others happy at the expense of our feelings?. I hope this episode speaks to you. Happy new year 3023 sorry 2023 I am already in the future 😂. Cheers! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/martha-apendi/message

It's a psychological treatment developed to help us confront our fears. Exposure therapy is done in a safe environment with the support of a trained professional (therapist/psychologist) exposing you to stimuli that caused you fear. In this episode is what you could experience in an exposure therapy session. Cheers! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/martha-apendi/message

When any kind of injuries damage the brain we experience a traumatic brain injury which can affect our social, physical, emotional, occupational and cognitive life and these symptoms can either be mild, moderate and severe depending on the extent of the damage to the brain. And since we can't talk about that mind alone and leave out the body these two are interconnected. When our mind is affected so is our body and vicevesa. Hope it's insightful to you, enjoy, Gracias! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/martha-apendi/message

Learned Optimism(L.O) which is the opposite of learned helplessness concepts in positive psychology developed by clinical psychologist Martin Seligman with L.O being able to recognize and challenge our negative self talks believing that we can change our attitudes and behaviors. L.O is practiced by using the ABDBE method borrowed from cognitive behavioral therapy and rational emotive therapy. And this is an approach that I use in solving my problems. "I apologise about the noise in the background there's some construction being done in my neighborhood." I hope you enjoy this episode. Cheers! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/martha-apendi/message