Your message can have a greater impact through an effectively told story. They can ignite ideas. They can stir up feelings of awe, wonder, inspiration. They can make us jump out of our seats in surprise or terror. Stories hold powers greater than we may have imagined. Once upon a relatively recent time, the field … Continue reading The Neuroscience of story
Author: Frankie Samah
I am a psychology teacher who has a passion to write all genre's but mostly non-fiction. I am a mental health ambassador, who lives in Mid-Wales with family and I love to go traveling in my 1983 VW camper van.
Black Lives Matter
Many moons ago, my daughter’s ‘educator’ said to her “that robbers are mostly black people”, let’s call her Susan. I didn’t confront Susan about it, instead I went to her senior. Susan’s boss said “oh don’t worry about it, she’s probably a Sun reader”. And I left it, but hating myself for not pushing this. As this … Continue reading Black Lives Matter
About me
Hi friends, I thought I would re-introduce myself. I started my account sharing photos of my V.W. camper- Reggie and has since morphed into sharing Reggie, my dogs, my love for reading and writing. His former owner gave Reggie his name, he’s 36 and has been with me now six years. I’m super introverted and expressing … Continue reading About me
The very real pain of break ups
Breakups suck. They usually suck more for one of the break up-ees. They can suck so bad you don’t want to get out of bed, talk to anyone, eat. Sometimes it feels like you physically cannot do any of these things. All you can do is sit slumped in your bed, staring into nothing, stuck … Continue reading The very real pain of break ups
What shaped my reading life
Being a family with four other siblings- I’d hide in my wardrobe to try have some peace from my annoying younger brothers (yes, they are just as annoying as adult brothers) and I would read The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was my first feeling of total immersion in a book. My dad would occasionally … Continue reading What shaped my reading life
The strangeness of looking at your own face all day on Zoom
Lockdown means many of us are spending longer than at any time in history with our reflections. From Shakespeare to Plath, can literature help us navigate this new era of the ego? When the anthropologist Edmund ‘Ted’ Carpenter showed the isolated Biami tribespeople of the Papuan plateau a mirror for the very first time, they … Continue reading The strangeness of looking at your own face all day on Zoom
The Anxiety Equation
That’s right there is an equation for anxiety. It is as follows: Anxiety= Estimation of danger/Estimation of coping skills I love a good equation, especially when it comes to something as complicated as the human psyche. Let me explain it- anxiety occurs when either the danger of the situation outweighs the number of coping skills … Continue reading The Anxiety Equation
Our stress brain and COVID-19
The global pandemic of COVID-19 means that we are living in unprecedented times. It looks like something we will have to keep dealing with over the next weeks. As we are aware, chronic stress has adverse effects on the brain. Receptors for stress hormones are found in the hippocampus, amygdala and frontal cortex. These structures are involved … Continue reading Our stress brain and COVID-19
Journaling to reframe anxiety
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14lEbWumFUZrR7vYF6BxkMNrSF2f2NeRZ/view?usp=sharing Hi all, I have created a document about journaling to reframe anxiety in the link above- I hope you find it useful
I am what I believe day
https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/18083390.inspirational-day-presteigne-pupils/ Thank you so much to Presteigne Primary School, that hosted a day about I am what I believe. The children came to school dressed up in what they wanted to be when they were older and we had lots of parents volunteer come and give chats about what they did as jobs.
