Posted: March 29, 2023
Self / Forgiveness can help us release negative feelings that can hold us back and negatively impact our well-being over time. When struggling with painful, guilty, angry, or unhappy feelings related to a past event, writing a letter of forgiveness is a creative way to…
Posted: October 11, 2022
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.…
Posted: October 6, 2022
Injury and Healing This exercise is designed for you to write about some aspects of your own life and your own personality that will help you and your partner understand you better. In your own notebook, answer the following questions as candidly as you…
Posted: March 31, 2022
Looking at the positives of a traumatic event is a core component of optimism, and a useful way to identify the personal resources that help us cope with adversity. This write up helps you find the silver linings of a traumatic experience, while appreciating…
Posted: February 22, 2022
Nobody makes it through life without some bumps, unfortunately for some the scars run deep, and the past isn’t just the past. It can be hard to watch the ones we love go through these hard times, can be difficult to manage ourselves, and can…
Posted: February 22, 2022
The Gottman Institute calls it a Diffuse Physiological Arousal (DPA) state that a person goes into when they have started to emotionally flood and they are starting to shut down emotionally and physically. We’ll just call it flooding. When flooded, we might experience a racing…