Linda Graham, MFT and author of Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being, shares a highly effective stress relieving exercise that encourages the release of oxytocin, the brain’s...
Category - Difficult Emotions
Linda Graham, MFT
Anger: A Prelude to Courage
Linda Graham, MFT, examines the neuroscience of anger and though it is a necessary, hard-wired survival skill, the key is to recognize healthy vs. unhealthy anger. It’s important to understand that anger is a...
What Can You Do When You’re Shaken?
Rick Hanson, PhD, looks at the need we all have to find a place to stand firmly; whether it be physically, psychologically or spiritually. He offers ways to find stability when you feel shaken or out of control. I’ve...
Rick Hanson, PhD
Combat Self-Blame with Self-Forgiveness
Dr. Elisha Goldstein, PhD, offers a self-forgiveness practice to help shift our old stories and habit of self-blame. He suggests that if we adopt a “learning mindset,” growth can occur from the inevitable...
Elisha Goldstein, PhD
Overwhelmed? 11 Ways to Ease Your Anxious Mind
Are you overwhelmed with personal, relationship and/or work stressors, life and possibly even the political climate? There are many things that can be deeply unsettling to people and we all have our own ways of dealing...
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Could it Crack? Embrace Fragility.
Rick Hanson, PhD, looks at the fragility that weaves through life and humanity. He encourages us to recognize, accept and push through our vulnerability. The truth of anything is like a mosaic with many tiles...
I Tried to Prove Myself to the World
Indhira Rojas is the founder of Anxy, a new magazine that de-stigmatizes emotional struggles and normalizes the fears we all have. She shares the story behind starting Anxy, when she realized her feelings of...
Loneliness Impacts Emotional, Relational and Physical Health
An excellent piece found on PsychCentral.com highlights the pervasive problems associated with loneliness. The issue of feeling separated from others is rampant in life and often reflected in my therapy practice. We...
The Light in Your Dark Side: How Negative Emotions Serve You
Linda Graham, MFT reflects on the book, The Upside of Your Dark Side by Todd Kashan, Phd, offering a corrective to the last 20 years of the positive psychology movement which itself was meant to be a corrective to...
Just Breathe: Kids Talk About Difficult Emotions and Using the Breath to Relieve Stress
Much is known about the power of the breath to reduce stress. Slow, deep breathing triggers the relaxation response that changes the physical and emotional responses to stress. It decreases your heart rate, blood...
