First Aid for Feelings is an exceptionally practical self-help guide. It will help you understand your mind-body connection, take control of your well-being, practise self-care and stay in good health.
Are you struggling with health, relationships, or work? Are you experiencing feelings like overwhelm, anger, pain, anxiety, fatigue, or stress? More and more of us are. Add cost of living, war, and climate anxiety to the mix - when have we ever faced so many challenges?
Experts tell us that good and consistent self-care is needed more than ever as so many of us are struggling with our physical, mental, and social health. All self-care starts with knowing how to read and respond to your feelings, both emotions and physical sensations. Feelings are vital information for self-care.
The First Aid for Feelings Manual:
- Provides a practical and easy-to-remember method to help you understand, practise, and build the self-care skills essential for good health
- Includes step-by-step instructions on building your personalised First Aid Kit for Feelings
- Will help you improve and strengthen your self-relationship by focussing on curiosity and compassion.
This manual will help you feel better, putting you firmly in the driving seat of your own health and well-being.
Thor A Rain, MA Hons Dip.Clin.Hyp.NLP.Coach.EFT (They/Them)
Thor A Rain is a health activist, pain and fatigue specialist, and social entrepreneur. For over a decade, they've helped thousands of people manage and improve their physical, mental, and social health. They're uniquely qualified to do so. They recovered from complex PTSD, ME/CFS, and Fibromyalgia - having been told by doctors that they'd never get well.
It was during their recovery that Thor developed the First Aid for Feelings method, including the ABC technique and the First Aid Kit for Feelings. Once recovered they completed a Master's degree and a clinical diploma, which included Clinical Hypnosis, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Coaching. Working with patients, Thor realised that the First Aid for Feelings method was helpful to others. After working with this method in consultations since 2010, Thor taught the first workshop in 2013.
Galvanised by patients' successes, Thor set up a social enterprise in 2015 to help others, called The Helpful Clinic. The clinic's social mission is to improve people's health and well-being by increasing health and emotional literacy. We do this through consultations, workshops, meditations on the Insight Timer platform, and publications like this First Aid for Feelings Manual.
Nicki Hayes (She/Her)
Nicki Hayes is a freelance writer specialising in well-being and social impact. She has been a companion to many authors and organisations, contributing to six books to date, including:
- Leader iD: Discover your Leadership Profile, Learn How to Improve by Dr Glenn Wallis and David Pilbeam
- How to Become a Talented Performer: A Formula for Early Career Success by Dr Glenn Wallis and David Pilbeam
- Stretch: Leading Beyond Boundaries by James Brook and Dr Paul Brewerton
- Emotional Fitness: Changing the Way You Think and Feel by Paul Bird
- The Meaningful Life: How to Live the Life You Love and Love the Life You Live by Randeesh Sandhu
She has also been involved in many psychology-based development programmes, delivered both online and in person. Topics include life skills for young prisoners, employment skills for the long-time unemployed, and evidence-based behavioural skills for living well with anxiety.
Nicki has a strong sense of social justice and an interest in social impact. She's written for organisations such as Cambridge Social Ventures and Pioneers Post, and mentored purpose-led entrepreneurs on the 50th Generation programme. Authoring countless articles about purpose-led business, she's also helped many social entrepreneurs find their "Why bother?" and shape how they tell their stories.
In the absence of telepathy, words and actions are all we've got to understand ourselves and each other. So, for Nicki, words are where it's at. Easing the suffering of miscommunication is her "Why bother?".
