Amy Eden Jollymore, an adult child of alcoholics, dives into ways to get unstuck from fear. She believes if you start with the small stuff, you will develop the courage to tackle bigger and scarier things…one...
Category - Difficult Emotions
Amy Eden
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, building stress resilience skills. She offers an exercise to do that. Oxytocin is the neurotransmitter of the “calm and connect”...
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
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, self-esteem issues, feeling unlovable, managing stress or unhealthy...
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
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...
Lower the Pressure
Rick Hanson, PhD looks at stress management from a neuroscience perspective and how we can “lower the pressure” we put on ourselves. — Why? Things come at us with so much urgency and demand these days...
Stay Right When You’re Wronged
Rick Hanson, PhD looks at ways to see things clearly when you aren’t treated well, to do what you can and then let it go. — It’s easy to treat people well when they treat you well. The real test is...
The Neuroscience of Resilience: Emotional Regulation
Post 3/9 in a series by Linda Graham, MFT, a deep dive on the neuroscience of stress and resilience. As previously discussed in The Neuroscience of Resilience: Quelling the Fear Response, much has been learned...
The Neuroscience of Resilience: Quelling the Fear Response
Post 2/9 in a series by Linda Graham, MFT, a deep dive on the neuroscience of stress and resilience. As previously discussed in The Neuroscience of Resilience: Nervous System Regulation, much has been learned about the...
