Linda Graham, MFT looks at the challenge that being “too busy” creates for maintaining a sense of kindness and compassion to others. She offers an exercise to help you slow down and practice self-compassion...
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Linda Graham, 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...
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...
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Key Insights | 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 Does Emotional Health Look Like?
Many of us go to physicians to assess our physical health. Are there issues of disease present or are all systems in the body operating smoothly? It’s often obvious when physical health-related issues arise as there...
How are you? Really.
I’m not talking about the kind of “how are you” many of us ask acquaintances that often gets the “fine” response. Whether it’s true or not, many of us have gotten used to relying on...
How’s Your Emotional Health? A Quick Checklist
The term “emotional health” means different things to different people. We all have a basic sense of what makes us happy and the road to a peaceful, satisfying life is unique for everyone. As a therapist...
