Margie Ulbrick, an Australian relationship counselor, takes the sting out of rejection by providing useful tools to more effectively move through this common experience. Rejection is a universally human experience. We...
Category - Difficult Emotions
Margie Ulbrick
Tools for Resilience: “Hand on the Heart” for Calm
Linda Graham, MFT looks at oxytocin’s ability to calm the mind/body and increase resilience. She offers an exercise to do that. Oxytocin is the neurotransmitter of the “calm and connect” response and...
Linda Graham, MFT
Are We There Yet?
Rick Hanson, PhD, examines how we can spend too much time trying to get “somewhere,” the impact on the brain and offers tools to be more present. We spend so much of our time trying to get somewhere. Part...
Rick Hanson, PhD
Steps to Identify Your Unhelpful Belief Systems
The core beliefs that you carry can be insidious in how they creep into your your perceptions about just about everything. Do you struggle with anger, depression, anxiety, stress or recurring relationship problems and...
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
5 Ways to Stay Cool in the Face of Another’s Emotional Reactivity
I had an experience that tested my patience and challenged me to remain calm in the face of aggressive, critical words. My initial instinct was to fight back, defend and point out the ways in which this person had...
Lower the Pressure
Rick Hanson, PhD looks at stress management from a neuroscience perspective and how we can “lower the pressure” we put on ourselves. Why? Things come at us with so much urgency and demand these days. Phones...
Stay Right When You’re Wronged
Rick Hanson, PhD looks at ways to see things clearly, do what you can and let it go. It’s easy to treat people well when they treat you well. The real test is when they treat you badly. Think of times you’ve...
Key Insights | The Neuroscience of Resilience: Emotional Regulation
(Post 3/9 in a series) As previously discussed in The Neuroscience of Resilience: Quelling the Fear Response, much has been learned about the the power of resilience. The last post in this series looked at the...
The Neuroscience of Resilience: Quelling the Fear Response
(Post 2/9 in a series) As previously discussed in The Neuroscience of Resilience: Nervous System Regulation, much has been learned about the the power of resilience in how it impacts vulnerability to stressors...
3 Tools for Effective Anger Management
Anger is one of the four primary emotions and has a very good purpose of alerting us to our boundaries being crossed by others. It serves us well when it’s expressed in a healthy way. However, when anger becomes...
