Anxiety

Changing Emotional Responses   Emotions are powerful survival skills so ingrained in the brain they are unavoidable. When something happens or is noticed, the brain starts creating the chemicals in ~40 to 100 milliseconds and starts thinking about the thing in ~250 to 500 milliseconds.…

Body Scanning Meditation   For an audio version, visit MIndful.org   Instructions It is recommended you allow about 30 or 40 minutes to let yourself really investigate this practice. But if you don’t have that much time, utilize whatever time you have. You might want…

Ever heard of a little thing called Positive Psychology? This philosophy aims to shift the focus of psychology away from mental illness and pathology to studying what makes life worth living. The goal is to work with patients in a more constructive way. i.e., helping…

A lot of the work I do as a therapist deals with one’s self identity and isolation. For some of us, even in a room crowded enough to give a golden retriever social anxiety we feel lonely, out of place. Some of us are in…

It’s happening! Your SO has started talking to someone, is on a (first?) date, or is playing in  a scene. You’re mustering all the compersion you can, and still you’re having you’re own personal Mr. Brightside moment worrying about your own Jolene. Often, even with…

Very often nothing opens one’s eyes to the daily struggles some face more than a shared experience. I had a partner diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) that suffered daily panic attacks. I didn’t get it until I had my own. Like many I thought…