The negative review is the act of rehashing and embellishing conversations in our minds after an interaction has already occurred, while at the same time focusing on our perceived shortcomings. …
How to Deal with the “Negative Review”
ToolsYour Path to Recovery
Come over to the right side – your path to recovery. Choose the right kind of hard. Use better coping skills. Experience the change. Encourage yourself. Leave us a comment …
ToolsCognitive Distortions
Catastrophizing: You tell yourself that the very worst is happening or is going to happen. Overestimating Probabilities/ Underestimating Coping Response: You overestimate difficulty or danger while underestimating your ability to …
Finding the Compass in Compassion: A New Model of Caring for Others and Ourselves
When I first came to therapy as a client at the age of twenty-one, I worried at the end of my initial session that my suffering would burden my therapist …
ToolsWhat Are My Coping Skills?
BE PRACTICALDo you have directions? Contact numbers? A plan or goal? Money? The right clothes? Phone charged? Snacks/water? Enough time to get some place? And, do you need to be …
ToolsWrite a Letter to Your Suffering Self
Clients tell me that they have absolutely no idea how to have self-compassion, and while they easily demonstrate compassion for others, they just don’t know how to be compassionate with …
How to Practice Willingness
Many psychological approaches based in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and other mindfulness-based therapies propose willingness as an effective technique for coping with a variety of symptoms. I agree …
ToolsCognitive Defusion and Mindfulness Exercises
Cognitive defusion is the technique of becoming untangled from our thoughts. While cognitive fusion is the process of believing that our thoughts are literally “true,” cognitive defusion is the ability …
Professionals ToolsTreating Insomnia with Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and Relaxation Techniques
Insomnia and other chronic sleep disorders affect more than 40 million people in this country, and studies have shown that anxiety and stress play a significant part in this problematic …
Anxiety Reader Feedback ToolsHealing Hypervigilance
If you suffer from hypervigilance, you may be engaging in an exhausting, never-ending strategy of scanning your environment for evidence of danger. Hypervigilance is not a disorder in and of …