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...
Category - Difficult Emotions
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Shame: You Are Only As Sick As Your Secrets
Jennifer Lehr, MFT digs deep into her personal battle with shame and secret keeping. As a therapist, she chooses to reveal so much of herself with the hope that others will benefit. Unmasking shame is a very...
Jennifer Lehr, MFT
How to Get Your Fear to Back Off
Amy Eden Jollymore, an adult child of alcoholics and long time writer on the subject, dives into ways to get unstuck from fear. She believes if you start with the small stuff, you will develop the courage to tackle...
Amy Eden
Resilience and the 6 C’s of Coping
Everyone experiences adversity and people have different abilities to recover from difficult situations. This is called resilience and the good news is, it can be developed. In the book, Bouncing Back: The...
Ouch! How to Deal with Rejection
Margie Ulbrick, an Australian relationship counselor, takes the sting out of rejection by providing useful tools to more effectively move through this common experience. Rejection is a universally human experience. We...
Margie Ulbrick
Tools for Resilience: “Hand on the Heart” for Calm
Linda Graham, MFT looks at oxytocin’s ability to calm the mind/body and increase resilience. She offers an exercise to do that. Oxytocin is the neurotransmitter of the “calm and connect” response and...
Linda Graham, MFT
Are We There Yet?
Rick Hanson, PhD, examines how we can spend too much time trying to get “somewhere,” the impact on the brain and offers tools to be more present. We spend so much of our time trying to get somewhere. Part...
Rick Hanson, PhD
Do One Scary Thing a Day
Linda Graham, MFT looks at the benefits of doing something scary every day which can build the brain’s capacity for resilience. The scary things we could choose to do each day could vary quite a bit from person to...
Steps to Identify Your Unhelpful Belief Systems
The core beliefs that you carry can be insidious in how they creep into your your perceptions about just about everything. Do you struggle with anger, depression, anxiety, stress or recurring relationship problems and...
5 Ways to Stay Cool in the Face of Another’s Emotional Reactivity
I had an experience that tested my patience and challenged me to remain calm in the face of aggressive, critical words. My initial instinct was to fight back, defend and point out the ways in which this person had...
