How Acceptance and Commitment Therapy can help you rebuild your life after 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 anxiety, stress, and compassion fatigue in quarantine

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.