Kati Morton

Powerful Negative Thoughts! / Suicidal Friend / Traveling for the Holidays

1. I am beginning to learn more and more about how much trauma I experienced as a kid and how much it has affected my mindset as an adult.  A lot of the messages like "no woman will ever love me" came from my mom or step mom as I grew up.    I am now recognizing that most of my negative thought spirals come about after some sort of "trigger" followed by a flashback. I almost fe...

We are going live!

Bring your questions! We will be live for the next hour :) xox

Patreon only Livestream!

Tomorrow Wednesday December 6th from 4-5pm PST we will have another livestream! I will be doing the first hour (from 3-4pm) on YouNow and then switching over to Crowdcast on here. I know many of you have had issues getting onto the livestreams, so I encourage you to reach out to Crowdcast or Patreon with your questions asap!! xoxo Hope to see you then!! xoxo

livestream take 2!

Come hang out!! So sorry for the struggle.. ugh

We Are Going Live!

Use the crowdcast app if you are tuning in on a mobile device, or click the orange crowdcast link below!!! Come hang out! I will be live until 3:30pm PST!! 

LIVESTREAM TOMORROW!

Hey everyone! We will be having another crowdcast livestream tomorrow from 2-3:30pm pst. I hope to see you all there!! 

Thoughts on suicide | Therapy termination | Self Injury Urges | Mental Health Need?

1. Hi Kati, As you know I suffer from Complex PTSD,MDD, This past weekend my sister-in-laws father committed suicide, he was 77, he had been dealing with depression for the past ten years. I know from my brothers suicide how it harms the family left behind, I don’t want to be in that place where you don’t have feelings for anyone and do such a thing. For me and being in a tre...
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Sleep & EDs | Breaks in Therapy | Recovery from BPD | Never satisfied w/myself!

1. I would be really interested to hear about the relationship between eating disorders and sleep. I have struggled with an eating disorder in a variety of ways (restrictive eating, followed by compulsive exercise paired with binge eating, currently a weird combination of all 3). I also sleep a LOT -- 10 or more hours per night. I'm just curious about how all the different eating...
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Assertiveness | Feeling stuck in trauma work | Depression and overeating | Work stress!

1. Hey Kati, so my question this month may seem a little odd but its something that’s been really bothering me this past month. First off I’ve been working on assertiveness since the last time I was in the hospital and I think I’m getting a lot better at it. But in the past month I’ve been wondering. How can a person try to be more assertive with someone who refuses to li...
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Can't access support?! | Switching ED for SH urges! | Emailing my therapist | Coping with Abortion

1. Hi Kati, my question for this month is what do you do when you can’t access the support that you need? I recently had somewhat of a horror week (a relative died, I was made redundant at work, found I was unable to move out of an unhealthy household and received some bad health diagnosis) and then had my therapist cancel last minute. She explained that she had a sick child at...
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Friyay Livestream!!

Happy Friday everyone! Come hang out with us! Bring your questions and your positive energy! xoxo

We are live! Come hangout!

Bring your mental health questions! And get ready to guest if you want!! xox

Livestreams!!

Hey everyone! I am so sorry that I wasn't able to do livestreams this week, but don't fret! I will be doing 2 livestreams next week (Wednesday & Friday). I will tweet the exact times the day before each stream.

I will do the first hour on YouNow followed by at least an hour on Patreon/Crowdcast!!

So get your questions ready!! Let's hang out and catch up! I have missed hanging out with ...

Messages and Burnout

Hey everyone, 

I have been wanting to write this post for a few months now, but needed some time to formulate my thoughts. So here goes:

I am no longer able to answer questions via messages on Patreon. I would love to be able to talk to all of you, answer your questions, and offer support 24/7. However, I just cannot keep up. Every time I finally get through my messages (which usually...

Patreon Livestream!!

Bring your Q's I've got some A's!! xoxo

LIVESTREAM!!

Hey everyone! There will be a livestream on here following my livestream on YouNow. So from 3-4pm PST!! I hope you all can make it! Remember if you are on a mobile device, it's best to download the crowdcast app :) xoxo 

Work & health needs | Supporting a parent | Mind & Body linked? | Dealing with Irritation

1. I just got a new position within my company (Yay!) but I was wondering what you would suggest the best way to explain my current reasonable accommodation and intermittent leave of absence to my new supervisor. Supposedly my previous supervisor was going to let my new one know whats been going on, but I'm not really sure he has since he's now on an LOA himself. I know they don't really have any ...

Grieving a pet | I notice when I'm doing poorly | Therapy Breaks | Trauma Reactions

1. Is it normal to grieve the loss of a pet more than a human loss? My dog passed away a few weeks ago & I am struggling so much to move on. I feel so ashamed that it's hit me so hard, but she was my baby (literally, as my husband & I can't have kids), my life, and in my darkest days my reason for getting up. It sounds silly, but I feel like without her I've lost my identity!

2. My quest...

Religion in therapy | Romantic relationships? Inpatient vs medical treatment! Clear Communication

1. I’m seeing a christian counsellor who values including God in the therapeutic process. I do too and I was open to move slowly through this but it was stupidly triggering some big reactions in me every session. I didn’t want to be closed off to God, rather, acknowledge that God is present as I begin processing life events but I made it really clear that was as far as I was willing to go with...

Happy Friday! Come hangout!

Doing our second ever Patreon hangout!! Bring your questions!! I will be live for an hour :) xoxox

Patron Only Livestream at 3pm PST!

Our second attempt at a Patreon livestream will be tomorrow at 3pm-4pm PST! You can click the link on the post when it goes live, and tune in using the crowdcast app :) Hope to see you all there! 

Our first livestream!

Bring your questions, and let's hang out! See how this works! xoxo

LIVESTREAM TOMORROW!

Based on the replies I received on Twitter, the time for the livestream tomorrow (9/23) will be at 2:30 pm PST! See you all then!! xoxo 

LIVESTREAM TOMORROW!

Hey everyone!! We will be trying out the new livestreaming feature on here tomorrow. I have posted a poll on Twitter asking you which time you would like best! I will put up another post with the actual time after the poll has been up for a few hours :) See you all tomorrow!! xoxo 

Dealing with insomnia/Overcoming Abusive Parents/Does Therapy Work?/Healing Family

1. Hi Kati, I was wondering if you could talk about how to deal with insomnia. I've always had a problem with it, and recently its gotten worse. I take melatonin and quetiapine (seroquel) as prescribed by my PCP, and I try to diffuse lavender and read before bed to try and make myself as tired as possible, but I keep finding myself having a hard time with sleep. I've talked about it with my therap...

Grief & Trauma/Dealing with family while on vacation/Sexual Trauma Flashbacks

1. Hey Kati! I am just wondering about the place of grieving in trauma work? Also, any tips on how to get better with connecting with the body, so I don't feel perpetually either depersonalized or disgusted by it (can't pin down a reason of why)? Thanks heaps!!

2. I have a family holiday coming up, it's our first one in more than 10 years. While I'm excited about my first time overseas I'm nervo...

Therapist Saying Too Much?/Child on Child Abuse/Fear of Intimacy/Grieving a Friendship

1. What are the guidelines when it comes to self disclosure on the therapists end? As a client are there ways for me to tell if what my therapist is sharing is appropriate or not? Even if they shared it believing it would be helpful to build rapport could it be not okay?

2. Hey Kati... I have a question. I was about 6 or 7 years old when a female family member almost 4 years older sta...

Karaoke! Leaving on a Jet Plane!

Thank you to all of you who were on the livestreams! Here is one of your rewards... me singing leaving on a jet plane. Which I am actually doing later today, as I head for VidCon Australia!! xoxo 

Hug my therapist? Stop those negative thoughts! Dealing with work stress, & Ketamine for depression!

1. I have a great connection with my new therapist. And for the first time I asked her if I could have a hug, she said yes happily. And I was so grateful because we worked on something really tough and I needed that hug. BUT I also keep a "tough shell".. I don't often let my emotions show, and rarely ever like physical affection, even if it is a simple hug. But after giving me a hug she said if I ...

How to deal with parents? What's a psych ward like? Why do I feel better before seeing someone?

1. How to deal with parents that don't want to listen about my mental health issues or don't want to understand them. I have tried talking and they just don't listen, change the subject or get cross at me. In the past when my mum found about about me SH she got cross and said I was only doing because my friend is.

2. What's it like the first time you go to a psych ward? AKA the hospital - for su...