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Amazing Aspects Of Emotional Reactions
Emotional reactions get a bad rap. Most women have been taught at a young age that their emotions don’t matter. When they burst out angrily in a situation or started crying when feeling hurt, many times they are told to control their anger and stop their crying. And...
The Truth About Anxiety
Anxiety has become a household term. I’ve seen it move from a word that sometimes described nervousness or a form of excitement to becoming the go to word to describe rumination, stress, and worry. The diagnosis from the DSM 5, Psychology’s diagnostic criteria book...
Outcomes Focus Doesn’t Lead To Calm
Focusing on outcomes doesn’t help with long term calm and peace of mind. When Greg and I first moved in together, I was fresh out of graduate school and starting my first job in mental health therapy. I had so much knowledge I was eager to use to help the world! That...
Zone Of Conscious Change
Practicing Yoga, more than anything, keeps me in the zone of conscious change. Voluntarily, I stepped into the pitch darkness, trusting the sign that told me to “Use your left hand on the wall.” The wall was smooth as my hand gently glided along it while I took small...
The Chain Of Anger – A Yoga Perspective
The slippery side of anger is that it tells us we are justified in our reaction. That justification can lead to saying and doing things that normally, most of us, wouldn’t dream of doing otherwise. And often leads to regret, guilt, and shame when we act on impulses of...
Do You Wish You Had More ‘Me Time’?
This week I took a pause when I saw a post by neuroscientist, Dr. Lisa Masconi, showing that across all countries studied, women continue to have much less ‘leisure’ time than men. She labelled this as ‘Me Time.’ I know from working with women for over two decades in...
Controlling The Noisy Mind
It was an unseasonably warm fall day and I had my window open, enjoying the fresh air and sounds of nature. I was facilitating an online group when all the sudden the noise from outside the window increased. This made it harder for me to hear group members as they...
Managing Uncertainty In Times Of Distress
Managing uncertainty is hard and feels uncomfortable and distressing at times. If you do what has typically been taught to us, trying to control uncertainty, it can make things worse. In fact, I find many mental health professionals, unknowingly, encourage tactics to...
Exploring Choice Calms The Mind
Calming the mind doesn’t require more tools. In fact, if you never learned about another tool in your life, you can still effectively calm the mind. That’s because calming the mind requires having more choices, not more tools. LOCATION DOESN'T EQUAL CALM AND HAPPY I...
Are Your Beliefs Keeping You Stuck?
Do you find yourself stressed, upset, and reactive often? It just might be your perception of the situation that is causing this. Underneath our perception usually lies a belief in how we think things should go. Often in the form of what you judge to be ‘right’ or...
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