Raising Teens Pexel by Anna Shvets Raising teens is hard. This is the point in time when hormones run high, logic is often low, and eye-rolling is real. Raising a teen with…
How Stress Impacts Daily Life and What We Can Do About It
Anxiety and stress are disruptors. They get in the way of our ability to live our lives and to successfully fulfill our daily obligations and responsibilities. Worse, they take us out of…
How Long Do Panic Attacks Last?
My pen dragged diligently across my notebook in my undergraduate classes some years ago. “A panic attack usually lasts about fifteen minutes, the body can’t sustain that activation for long.” Still, this…
Broken Hearts and Broken Thoughts
Broken Hearts and Broken Thoughts
Avoid Worry: Strategies to Protect You and Your Relationship
Excessive worry is costly. It takes time and energy but brings little rewards. It often leaves the worrier feeling helpless, anxious, physically depleted, and more worried. Interpersonally, it compromises relationships, leaving partners…
Can a Break From Social Media Improve Mental Health?
Source: Yurii Maslak/Shutterstock My friend Alli, a woman in her 20s, described an interesting emotional arc to her Instagram use. As she scrolled, she found some of the posts inspiring, but after…
How to Keep an Incel From Becoming a Sex Offender
Source: Master1305 / Freepik Incels are often associated with violent acts of misogyny or depicted as pathetic targets of humor. Having treated a number of self-described incels who had been convicted of…
5 Affirmations to Overcome Social Anxiety
Blindness, S. I. (2010). Gorillas in Our Midst: Sustained Inattentional Blindness for Dynamic Events Daniel J. Simons and Christopher F. Chabris. Perception: Visual perception, 2, 277. Kumar, A., & Epley, N. (2018)….
Lose Anxiety, Live Life |
Living With an Anxiety Disorder Anxiety disorders are prevalent today. Generalized anxiety disorder, social phobias, and performance fears are on the rise, at least in part because we face a rapidly changing,…
Mindstorm Survival and First-Aid |
A mindstorm is an intense experience of overwhelm. Others often use the terms “meltdown” or “shutdown” to describe this phenomenon. I’ve found the term “mindstorm” to be more precise. Mindstorms show up…