Posts Tagged ‘anger’
The Practice of Self-Compassion ll By Stephanie Boulton, MA, LPCC
In my practice I work from a neurobiological perspective. In a nutshell, this means I focus on how a person’s nervous system has learned to regulate and how it has adapted to past events. Neurobiology’s main premise (based on lots of research) is that we are biologically wired in certain ways and being mammals, we…
Read More7 Tips for Staying Power ll By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA.
How will you navigate what’s next? We’re more than six months into a pandemic with more months to come, even with the promise of a vaccine. Anger: A secondary reaction to pain, not good or bad—but what you do with it 1-TURN OFF THE NEWS. I cannot stress this enough. We as a species come…
Read MoreForest Fire: How to Use Nature’s Metaphors for Embracing Change ll Brenda Bomgardner
In a blog post from Creating Your Beyond, my person blog, I talk about Breaking Free From The Comfort Zone: How avoiding the uncomfortable causes even more distress. I discuss “experiential avoidance,” an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) term that details the human tendency to avoid taking actions that bring up any discomfort, even when…
Read MoreMind/ Body / Spirit: Integrating the Whole Being ll By Faye Maguire
We often hear about “treating the whole person”, which is an acknowledgement that modern Western medicine and psychology has, in practice, separated human beings in disparate parts and treated those parts as if they exist in a vacuum, unconnected to the rest of the person. Medicine has become the domain of specialists, highly educated in…
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