Linda Graham, MFT and author of Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being, looks at how “unlovability” is wired into the brain and the experience of rejection gets encoded in...
Category - Emotional Health
Linda Graham, MFT
It’s February, Write a Love Letter to Yourself
The beginning of February signals that Valentines Day is near. For those in loving, intimate relationships who put a lot of meaning into this holiday, they may be all atwitter about how they will spend time with a...
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
If You Read One Book
If you’ve been paying any attention to the world of emotional health and relationships, you’ve probably come across terms like positive brain change, neuroplasticity, the neuroscience of resilience, etc. ...
Be Still
Being quiet and still can be the opposite of what our fast paced society encourages and often rewards. The more you do and achieve, the more you accomplish, the more successes and accolades, the better, so it says. ...
#TheToolbox Best of Emotional Health and Relationships 2018
Happy New Year! It’s time for my annual end of the year celebration featuring the “best of” emotional health and relationship content from the closing year, including the three most popular articles in each...
Resilience: 5 Conditions That Accelerate Brain Change
Linda Graham, MFT and expert on the topic of resilience, describes five conditions that accelerate the process of brain change to cultivate improved perception and response habits. Safety, resonant relationships...
3 Key Questions for Your Well-Being Check Up
If you spend time with medical check ups or car tune ups, what about your emotional health? Do you take the time to check in and really reflect upon on how you’re doing? The holiday and New Year period is often a...
4 Ways to Build Emotional Resilience
Do you bounce back from challenging experiences? Or do you get caught in a whirlwind of difficult emotions, feeling vulnerable, lost or out of control? Emotional resilience is the ability to adapt well to stressful...
Making a Mindfulness Practice Stick
I’ve been practicing mindfulness meditation off and on for over five years. The operative words here are “off and on.” Though I do generally live my life with far more attention and attunement to the...
Male Childhood Abuse, Mother Wounds and Healing
Rick Belden is a trauma survivor with physical, sexual and emotional wounds sustained at the hands of his own family as a young boy, leaving psychological lacerations into adulthood. Through his own work and growth via...
