Chase away any leftover winter depression and anxiety with spring exercises for fun and insight! Eggs, bunnies, butterflies. What do these items have in common? That’s right, they all symbols of Easter. Birth, fertility, and transformation. Let’s use the symbols of Easter for self-reflection! Over the course of the next week, play with one of […]
Comments Off on Chase Away Leftover Winter Depression and Anxiety: Spring Exercises for Fun and Insight Continue Reading...“It is through the transformation of your personal trauma that your purpose will appear.” A colleague shared these words with me this week and they struck me as oh so true! All humans have experienced a multitude of traumas in our lifetimes. Small ones and large ones. Layers of small traumas can impact us as […]
Comments Off on Transform Your Trauma, Unlock Your Purpose Continue Reading...Twenty one years ago I witnessed my four year old daughter extend her arms into the air, curl her fingers a particular way and twirl around in an elegantly fluid dance move characteristic of dancers in Southeast Asia. The beauty and grace of her move took my breath away and I thought where did she […]
Comments Off on Trauma and Joy Through The Generations Continue Reading...Does this scenario seem familiar: you are having a typical day, some things go well, others not so well. In the middle of it all someone makes a comment and suddenly you doubt yourself. You ruminate on the negative and dismiss the good. While this is an adaptive behavior and served us well through much […]
Comments Off on Anchor the Good to Release Depression and Anxiety Continue Reading...Many years ago, I counseled a woman who was bitterly grieving a loss that had occurred 50 years earlier. She recalled details as if they had happened yesterday. She was entrenched in her story. I don’t know whether her story shifted at some later point, but I was touched by her relentless pain. She taught […]
Comments Off on When You Are Falling, Dive Continue Reading...Dear Readers, Most people experience some level of depression at some time in their lives. Today (April 28, 2014) my guest on Voices For Healing Radio Show discusses her 25 year long experience with depression and the ways she learned to live a rich and full life while living with this condition. I think many […]
Comments Off on Depression: A Hurt In Your Soul And How To Heal It Continue Reading...Hello Everyone, Do you notice the contractions that happen as you think depressed thoughts or feel the sensations of grief and fear? Contraction is often our immediate response to threat, but it’s not a state we must remain in or even avoid. We can use the sensation to practice the healing techniques of emotional connection. […]
Comments Off on The Hidden Power of Emotions Continue Reading...Do you experience depression or anxiety? Have you had one or more losses or grief that you can’t seem to get over? This morning on Voices for Healing Talk Radio, my guest, Linda Graham, MFT, and I discussed her book, Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being. Linda’s book is filled with […]
Comments Off on Bouncing Back: Keys to Resiliency Continue Reading...We all want happiness. Yet many of us live with depression. Our Constitution guarantees us the right to pursue happiness. And happy is a wonderful feeling. When we expect to live in a permanent state of happiness, though, we are living in fantasy land. Seeking happiness as the end all is a disservice to ourselves […]
Comments Off on Pursue Happiness AND Be Vital Continue Reading...The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust What stories are you telling yourself as 2013 comes to a close? How do you spin your stories? The stories we tell and how we tell them can depress us or empower us. Often we get caught […]
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