Have you ever used a pressure cooker at home?
Pressure cooker pots are made of sturdy metal, with a lid that covers the pot and a valve to release the steam. Maybe some sticky left-over food that you couldn’t quite remove last time you used it 
What do you think would happen if you had a lot of fuel and hot flames under the pot but the lid was way too tight and the valve totally blocked?
Indeed, it would probably explode.
Turns out that we all have our “inner pressure cooker”!
Just imagine that every part of the pressure cooker reflects something important in your body and mind, like in the picture.
Some people find it really hard to express, feel or recognise difficult thoughts and feelings, and keep themselves to themselves (=tight cover).
They may also struggle to release these feelings in other ways (=blocked valve). With those two channels blocked, difficult thoughts and feelings may come out differently – including FND and sometimes in other understandable but unhelpful ways.
Luckily, there are quite a few things that you can do to “open up” your pressure cooker “at the top”, for example:
⇒ call a family member or a friend for a chat
⇒ go out for a dinner or a fun activity with friends, practise a sport, watch a nice movie
⇒ practise with noticing and identifying your emotions, or how different emotions may feel in your body
There is so much more to explore with the Pressure Cooker Model ! But we are taking it easy
