Using music to reduce stress and improve social engagement
Safe and Sound Protocol-How 5 Hours of Music Calms
Based on Polyvagal Theory, the Safe and Sound program, is a five-hour audio intervention with calming effects for improved connection.
Reduce anxiety and depression with self-compassion
Cultivating Self-Compassion as a Path to Forgiveness
Self-Compassion sounds like a roundabout way to forgiveness, but resentment, revenge and silence often result in more suffering.
Access peace and calm in minutes
Centering: A Two Minute Foundational Practice to Relieve Anxiety
Centering is one of the most important skills that a client can acquire to de-stress, repair relationships and prepare for deep trauma work.
Identifying the source of stress is important for stress relief
Stress: Proven Ways to Manage and Reduce its Impact
As intuitive as it may seem, it's not work, finances, health or relationships that cause stress. Our stress is often caused by how we feel about these things.
Finding purpose, identity and values through grounding
Finding Purpose
As human beings, we have an innate drive to seek out something beyond our basic biological needs. We also want and need purpose.
Writing learning and memory
Writing, Memory and Learning in Therapy
While you are writing, you are using a part of your brain that is different from the part of the brain where you are listening or speaking. Sometimes it is a way of disconnecting.
Retreat as Part of Your Self-Care Package
Retreating is a form of wisdom and an act of self-care to feed the soul, body and mind.
Spiritual Bypassing: Another Guest at the Denial Dinner Party
Spiritual bypassing is a coping mechanism, intentional or otherwise, that "protects" the ego from anxiety as an elaborate form of denial and avoidance.
Finding Healing in Ambivalence
Ambivalence is not always equivalent to denial or resistance. It can be perceived as thoughtful and considered reflection.
