Relaxing and doing nothing IS something
Wasting Your Time Doing Nothing
Thinking that you are wasting time when you are relaxing or taking a break is an example of distorted thinking associated with perfectionism.
Sensory overload -adjust the dial down
Sensory Overload: What’s Your Threshold of Tolerance?
Sensory overload may show up as fatigue, irritability or shutting down. This can impact our sleep routines and create additional problems.
The power of one and hope
Maintaining Hope in Turbulent Times
Staying grounded helps us maintain hope in turbulent times. Maintaining empathy, perspective, staying grounded or mobilizing creates hope.
Including supports in therapy
Including Family Members, Partners, & Friends in Therapy Sessions
Including a loved one in your therapy is an excellent way to practice relational skills and advance your progress in therapy.
Feeling better is only the start of overcoming depression
Overcoming Depression: Going Beyond Feeling Better
Overcoming depression requires addressing deep rooted patterns of thinking and behaving that fuel depression.
Depression robs you of life.
Understanding Depression
Depression is a serious mental illness that impacts one’s self-image, perspective, hope, sense of capability and general outlook on life.
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.
In defense of defensiveness
In Defense of our Defense Mechanisms
The journey to self-compassion lies in developing greater tolerance of the body’s defense mechanisms that show up as defensiveness.