Tag: Anxiety

Yesterday I wrote about how people do avoidant coping to avoid difficult thoughts and emotions getting triggered, or to escape from them once they are already occurring. I

Sarah Sarah is a people-pleaser. When people ask her to do things or invite her places, never in a million years would it occur to her that she

Let’s think about a bear. A bear hibernates in winter to avoid the dangers of winter. Humans have evolved a similar mechanism. Sometimes when we sense a threat,

Try this 1 min tip next time you notice yourself procrastinating about something important.

I thought I’d do something I haven’t done before – open a post up for comments. This is my version of an exercise from Dr Kristin Neff’s book.

I’ve been getting lots of feedback that people like the visual learning tools. Modeled on the Healthy Food Pyramid. It’s a pdf. View or download it at the

This is a technique I use in sessions with clients that you can try yourself. Imagine back to a situation in which you needed an adult to be

Most of the strategies that work for people who have “disorders” like depression or anxiety disorders, also work well for dealing with life in general. I like to

You can use this strategy when you’re feeling – anxious, – tense, and/or – overly sped up, or like your thoughts and feelings are racing. An emotion is

The last couple of weeks I’ve been practicing mindfulness of self criticism. I’m attempting to notice when I’ve got a self critical internal monologue going on, rather than