Calling all avoiders who suppress their feelings 3x before breakfast. Avoidance traps you in disengagement. It keeps you distracted from your life, fighting feelings, rather than living alongside them. Journal Prompts: I am really good at suppressing... If I wasn’t suppressing, I would be...
Category: Therapy
Psychological Flexibility, 2
Psychological Flexibility is the practice of making room for your emotions and thoughts rather than submerging yourself in pressure to change or suppress them.
Psychological Flexibility, 1
Psychological flexibility is a big word that essentially explores, what is your adaption to difficult like?
Now Available: E-book On Boundaries & Alcohol
Now Available on Amazon Exhaustion in a relationship is a common theme when someone is struggling with an alcohol use disorder. In this book I will provide principles that can equip you to know how and when to set boundaries utilizing your values and needs while accounting for the capabilities of someone struggling with alcohol. … Continue reading Now Available: E-book On Boundaries & Alcohol
An Essay on Fear
I’ll lock you up with protection, I’ll keep you confined to small margins of happiness.
Hope
In our current environment hope feels far away. Depression feels far more approachable and time appropriate. Yet, I chose to write about hope this month because it seems like something we need. Hope. A feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. Hope seems to come from shifts in our every day … Continue reading Hope
Stress Margin
Margin: The space between reasonable stress and unreasonable. I’m always curious about the real put together human that all of a sudden falls apart in public. Truly, there’s something sacred happening here. I have the urge to put out construction signs and say, “Caution Ahead, give this human some space, they are going to need … Continue reading Stress Margin
Projection
Projection can occur in our relationships when we feel powerless. It can act as avoidance of conflict and is likely to show up passively in other relationships.
Mindfulness and the Tongue
The practice of mindfulness provides space to learn how the body postures when stressed, relaxed, or happy.
Mindfulness and Isolation
Our thoughts are apart of us, they are not the sole vote of our identity. On the other hand, if we have difficulty allowing the movement of thoughts, we can feel isolated and stuck.