Optimizing Mental Health: Self-help, Exercise, Wellness, and Resilience
Is joy possible? Finding your purpose through active living
Do you believe joy is possible? Many people I work with feel they passively exist without joy. Depression, anxiety, trauma, etc. may initially cause this, but then it is perpetuated...
Life in Search of Meaning: Finding Your Meaning and Purpose of Life
People that are suffering can sometimes lose sight of the meaning and purpose of life. At times, they begin to question the meaning of it all and the reasons why...
10 Coping Strategies for Distress Tolerance
Because distress is so uncomfortable people understandably want to make it go away as soon as possible. At the moment of intense emotions, it feels like it may never...
How are you at regulating emotions? Learn essential emotional regulation skills from children.
Kids can teach us many things if we let them: how to play and have fun, relax more, get dirty, avoid homework yet also persevere, be compassionate and open-minded, and...
Pulling weeds and psychotherapy: What do self-exploration, self-discovery, and gardening have in common?
As winter dredges on I find myself beginning to think about spring and the joys of planting a garden. Spring is one of my favorite times of the year, where...
Too good to be true? An effective goal setting process you can sustain even when motivation is lagging. Learn how!
It's hard to sustain effort over time. Sometimes it's easier to get started than it is to keep going. This happens all the time with New Year's Resolutions...if you belong to a...
Writing SMART Goals Makes Achieving Your Dreams Possible.
Without setting goals, we may never achieve what it is we dream. Dreams are an endpoint and don't include the steps to take to get there. The goals we decide...
Achieve Your Dreams! A Series on the Importance of Setting Goals
Goals are part of every aspect of life and achieving them comes down to priorities and proper planning. Without setting goals and objectives, life becomes a series of chaotic events...
Feeling stuck in life? Instructions from a psychiatrist on how to live the life you love
If we are feeling stuck in life, or even uninspired, we have the opportunity to be creative and infuse passion back into our journey. You can create your future one...
Want to Motivate Behavior Change in Others? Apply Motivational Interviewing Techniques to General Life
Motivation is the fuel needed for change. Without it, it is difficult to create the inertia to move past status quo. People often gravitate to what is known rather than...
A Preschool Book Reveals the Secret to a Happy Life for Us All…Yup, It’s That Good
Well done, author Michael Hall. I am impressed. Red: A Crayon's Story takes the complicated subject of living authentically and successfully sums it up in a story about a mislabeled...
“Embrace the Suck” How the Power of Positive Thinking Can Turn Your Day Around
Tonight, on the way home from work I was sitting in stopped traffic, wet from being caught in a downpour, and feeling hungry. I wasn't super excited about my predicament...
