Procrastination: Is It Time to Stop Avoiding and Start Accepting?
“Look at the grass. I know the lawn’s gotten way too long. But the lawnmower needs fixing, and I just can’t face doing it yet. [...]
Practical ways to help you overcome social anxiety
Should I accept that invite to meet-up with friends again? That concert ticket is tempting, but being with hundreds of people indoors, is that a [...]
How to Heal Old Wounds Through the Practice of “Parenting Yourself”
Previously, we learned about a second staying exercise that helps us to attend to the parts of ourselves that get activated when we're triggered. Today, [...]
Love on the Brain: How Our Neural Circuitry Can Lead Us to Love (Or Not)
Feeling stressed and stuck in a relationship rut? Break up with old, unhelpful relationship programming to cultivate deeper, more romantic connections. Valentine’s Day is [...]
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 [...]
