You can benefit from befriending your feelings, both your everyday feelings and the more intense feelings of anxiety, depression, grief, fear. You will benefit from learning to befriend your feelings if you…
Is Body Awareness Causing Your Anxiety to Skyrocket?
anelehbakota/Envato Elements If you struggle with anxiety, do you also pay a lot of attention to your body sensations? While it is important not to be oblivious to what is happening in…
Remember, Thou Art Dust |
Philippe de Champaigne, Still-Life with a Skull Web Gallery of Art / Public Domain Imagine a client comes to your therapy office wanting to discuss feelings of despair. He has been given…
Identifying Unhealthy Habits That Intensify Anxiety
A woman being purposeful about her daily planning. Source: AnikonaAnn/Shutterstock Are you creating or contributing to your anxiety without realizing it? Yes, your anxiety may be linked to genetics, childhood trauma, or…
One Simple Fix to Combat Social Anxiety
Ever walk into a room and feel all eyes are looking at you? You imagine people are judging your every flaw. You start to shrink and think about everything that is wrong…
Taming the “Sunday Scaries” Before a New Work Week
Source: Gift Habeshaw/ Unsplash In a therapy session, a 45-year-old marketing manager I’ll call Jackconfessed: “I love the weekend, but right about dinner time on Sunday night, I start getting nervous. I…
The Art of Aloneness |
Lone sparrow Source: By Holly Brians Ragusa American poet and novelist Charles Bukowski said about being alone, “When nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at…
Too Much Information |
In line at the supermarket one night, the woman in front of me clutched a shopping basket full of ice cream, chocolate, and several bottles of wine. With embarrassment, she noticed me…
5 Lessons from Planning a Mental Health Film Festival
Shawn’s panic attack sends him through unusual dimensions and, as it worsens, his girlfriend Ellie’s behavior becomes increasingly erratic. A struggling young mother strives to bind her family together despite having an…
7 Tips for Improving Athletic Performance
Source: Pixelhead Photo Digital Skillet/Shutterstock Athletes often report that they have trouble keeping their minds in the game. They may worry about a previous missed play, whether they will make a poor…