I recently heard a poem that stopped me in my tracks with it’s visceral beauty and lesson in the power of mindfulness, or living in the moment. We all can learn to pay better attention as not to miss the magical...
Category - Emotional Health, Etc.
Other emotional health related content.
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Kindness is a Super-Power
Linda Graham, MFT believes that small acts of kindness can truly change the world. She explores the “super-powers of kindness” and ways to pass it on. When my friend Edith’s grandson Nick was 6 years...
Linda Graham, MFT
This Therapist’s Life: Out of the Office with Esther Boykin
“This Therapist’s Life” is an interview series intended to demystify therapists to the public while giving permission to therapists to speak from the heart about the joys and challenges of what we do, in and out of the...
The Importance of Sleep for Emotional Health, Brain and Body
Linda Graham, MFT examines ways that adequate sleep serves your emotional and physical health; the brain, nervous system, heart, mood and stress levels. She offers ways to set up the conditions for replenishing sleep...
How to Strengthen Your Perseverance and Grit
Linda Graham, MFT examines the role of “grit” in resilience and offers an exercise to strengthen perseverance to maximize your growth mindset. Both a friend and a client told me about this delightful 6...
Staying Calm in an Unsettled World
It seems to me the news has been particularly disturbing lately. Whether it’s ideological groups thrusting aggressively forward with psychologically terrifying tactics, a disturbing disease stealing the lives of...
I’m a Daily Struggling Someone, Not a Recovering Anybody
The discussion of male sexual abuse is slowly moving out of the shadows. The following piece is by a male victim of sexual abuse by both of his parents and others beginning early in his life. He is writing a book of...
What Are You Feeding Your Mind?
Craig Harper, a leading coach in Australia with a direct, wry and authentic writing style, compares the choices people make in their thinking and behaviors to the choices they make in what they put into their bodies...
Craig Harper, B.Ex.Sci.
New Year’s Resolutions for a Therapist
Many believe that therapists must get everything right in their lives. They should have great relationships and are happy most of the time. If we make our living guiding others towards emotional and relationship...
Is it hard? Accept difficulty.
Rick Hanson, PhD explores how peace can be more easily acquired if one learns to accept the challenges of life rather than be caught up in annoyance. He offers a number of ways to be better at handling the hard stuff...
Rick Hanson, PhD