Does your boss nit-pick EVERYTHING you do? Do you come home crying from your mother-in-law’s because of her CONSTANT criticism? Do you have coworkers or friends who always find fault and just won’t accept you for who you are? Watch this short video for 4 techniques you can use right away to defuse them all!…
Painful past experiences. We’ve all had them. Broken relationships. Abuse from the people who were supposed to watch out for us. Traumatic moments and events. The list keeps going on and on. With each painful past experience, you developed ways to help you survive, get through, to overcome the hurt you were going through. You…
Establishing a connection is essential for many reasons. Whether that connection is with yourself, others, or nature. According to psychologists, making a connection is extremely important for our overall sense of self, our emotional and physical health. Dozen of clinical researches have shown that people are generally ‘happier’ when connected in any form of relationships.…
If you were asked, “have you ever experienced anxiety?”, what would you say? “Yes, daily”, “Sometimes”, or “No, never”? The reality is that more people suffer from anxiety than are actually admitting. Unfortunately, anxiety can cause such confusion, that individuals feel trapped and unable to express their symptoms to others for fear of being judged…
Anxiety: If only we could magic it away. Anxiety is our body’s response to stress. It can range from a sick feeling in the pit of our stomach to a feeling of utter dread. We all deal with everyday stressors, though there are times when other pressures can weigh us down & leave…
The point of trying something new is to try something new. I frantically repeat this Radically Open DBT principle in my mind while standing with wobbly legs and then falling from my paddle board into the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. This wasn’t even my idea! Embarrassment knocked at the door of my…
Christians are called to be light and show God’s love to the world. But in our modern society, things have gotten a little twisted. Have you ever expressed your disagreement or expressed a need to an unsaved friend or family member, only to be hit right between the eyes with a sarcastic retort that bashes…
From the moment we’re born until the day we die we are continually absorbing messages that tell us who we are, what we’re worth as human beings, what we should be doing at any given time, how we should look (and especially how we shouldn’t look), what we should eat, what we should buy, what…
It has become increasingly evident that the moral model’s focus on abstinence as the beginning and ending point of treatment, has resulted in the need for a more humanistic, accepting and flexible treatment modality. The harm reduction approach fills this need by differentiating itself from the more authoritative, judgmental and exclusionary treatment modalities. It honors…
I remember well the day that I chose to leave my last job. Things had been stressful there, and I knew it was time to move on, but the decision was difficult to make. Despite the stress, I had a regular salary. I was never going to get rich off of it, but I was…