Midlife crisis
The period in which you ask whether the life you have built is really yours.
How it shows up
It isn’t necessarily drama with a new car. More often it is quiet: restlessness in the middle of an orderly life, a sense that time is passing, and the question of what you chose yourself and what you simply took on.
What we do with it in therapy
We don’t try to close the question too quickly. It is, after all, a sensible one — and the answer often changes more than any quick decision.
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See also
Polyvagal theory
A model describing three states of the nervous system: safe connection, mobilisation and freeze.
Psychoeducation
An explanation of how a difficulty works — part of therapy, not an introduction to it.
Triangulation
Bringing in a third person to relieve tension between two — most often a child.
