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Black and white thinking: How it’s holding you back from healing from religious trauma
Many people who leave a high control religion find themselves stuck in binary thinking long after they leave this environment. With some practice and self-compassion, you can unwind this unhelpful way of thinking and move beyond religious trauma.
How Acceptance and Commitment Therapy can help you rebuild your life after religious trauma
If you’ve realized your religious experience has had a harmful or traumatic impact on you, you may be feeling a complicated array of emotions and unsure of how to find meaning and purpose. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (or ACT, for short) is an approach that is well-suited to navigating this need to process complicated emotions and choose a path forward.
How to cope with the anxiety and discomfort of wearing a mask (video)
Wearing a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic can be anxiety provoking! In this video, I share 3 quick tips that might help.
Anxiety tips and tricks (Interview with Michael Lesher M.Ed., LPC)
Many of us are noticing an increase in anxiety as we navigate the many uncertainties of pandemic life. My colleague, Michael Lesher M.Ed., LPC and I recently had a conversation about our favorite ways to cope with anxiety.
How to cope with anxiety, stress, and compassion fatigue in quarantine
I was interviewed by Wendy Tilford, Executive Director of Huntington Learning Center, and Amanda Vlastas, Founder of West University Moms to discuss managing the stress, anxiety, and compassion fatigue that the challenges of quarantine pose. In this video, we talk about how to manage the feeling of not doing enough, the pain of comparing ourselves to how others are managing, and the fatigue that comes from helping everyone around us cope.
Meditation for anxiety – where to start
When clients come to me for help with anxiety, I often find that they have given meditation a try, but they say that it wasn’t helpful for them. I hear reactions such as “I just can’t calm down when I meditate” or “it seems like...
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