Thanksgiving is a time of reflection and pause around gratitude, sharing this with the people closest to you. Families come together from near and far to share meals, games, conversation, walks and other activities. ...
Category - Emotional Health
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Why Your Therapist Will Not Likely Give You Advice
Therapy is not about your therapist “fixing” you. I sometimes joke with clients that if I had a magic wand, I could wave it and their challenges would disappear! This certainly would make therapy go...
Retrospective Kindness
Linda Graham, MFT looks at the benefit of recalling missed opportunities for kindness. Active imagination revisioning can rewire the brain when an opportunity to be kind was missed. Most of us want to be kind, to...
Linda Graham, MFT
Pandemic: Why Not Yet Leaping Out Into the World Isn’t Weird
We’re not out of this thing yet as evidenced by the tragic surges unfolding in Covid hot spots in the world. But we sure are miles ahead of the dark days and unknowns of the past year. There are many reasons to...
How Are You Different?
We have gone through so much in the past year. We’ve adapted, bent, scrambled, mourned, watched, processed, prayed and hoped as our lives changed in ways it was impossible to have predicted. Many have...
When This is Over
This past year has felt to like it’s been sucked up into a vacuum. Many of us are rubbing the Covid sleep out of our eyes with cautious optimism as vaccine rollouts accelerate and Covid numbers decline nationally...
Cultivating the Wiser Self
Linda Graham, MFT and author of Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty and Even Disaster, shares an exercise to help cultivate your wiser self. When we’re facing a difficult...
What Do You Do When the Bottom Falls Out?
Rick Hanson, PhD and author of Just One Thing and others, reflects upon how to deal with highly stressful and overwhelming times, as others before us have. The Practice: Take heart. Why? It takes heart to live in...
Rick Hanson, PhD
Goodbye 2020: Top LoveAndLifeToolbox.com Tips for Pandemic Resilience
With the collective challenges of 2020, my annual “Best of Emotional and Relationship Health” featured post to ring in the New Year is a little different. Typically I share my most popular content of the...
Pandemic Fatigue is Legit
“I feel like I’m getting grinded down. I’m starting to lose my resilience,” a friend said to me today when we stopped to chat 6 ft apart with masks, both on evening walks with our dogs. We...
