How Revisiting Our Past Can Help Us in the Present
Previously, we practiced a staying exercise to help shift our emotional experience when we're triggered in order to make space for introspection and learning. Today, [...]
May 2021 Be a Year of Growth and Transformation
"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter [...]
Drop and Stay With Strong Emotions Instead of Running Away From Them
To loosen the grip of our old programming, instead of reflexively reacting to triggers with our old programming, we can stay present to what's going [...]
Why We Need to Treat Anger as an Emotion, Not a Behavior
When it comes to anger, we confuse emotion with behavior. They are not one in the same. Emotion and behavior are two very different things. [...]
What’s Our Problem with Anger?
When you think of anger, what comes to mind for you? Do you picture someone yelling, screaming, throwing things, or getting physically violent? Do you [...]
How to Use the Breath to Ground and Calm Your Mind
When we're activated, our fight-flight-or freeze response is in gear, we're overcome by our distress and that's all we can see. But, if we expand [...]
How Does Our Brain Wiring Show Up in Our Attachment Styles?
As infants, we are incredibly adaptive. We monitor our caregivers—their moods, emotional signals, and behavior—and figure out how best to maximize the care we can [...]
The Secret to Loving Again After You’ve Been Hurt
If you've been alive and dating for very long, chances are you've had a relationship go awry. You've been hurt. Whether the two of you [...]
4 Practices To Help You Connect With Your Emotional Experience
Over the last few weeks we've explored the individual elements behind the second step of my four-step process, Stop, Drop, and Stay - that teaches [...]
A Mindfulness Meditation to help us Befriend our Stress in this Historic Time
The world has been turned upside down in a very short time, and the impact on our psychological well-being is profound. Sometimes it feels like [...]
