Vanessa Smith Bennett, AMFT, addresses fake positivity and encourages seeing negative emotions as an opportunity for growth, not something to avoid. These days, the realm of spirituality (and sometimes psychology) can...
Category - Emotional Health
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
12 Indications You are Living an Authentic Life
Authenticity in your daily living is a sweet congruence of your beliefs, values and actions. Your inner world and outer world align and there is a synchronicity or balance between who you truly are as an individual and...
Breaking up with Alcohol and Stepping into a Clear Life
Cecily Mak shares her personal journey and paradigm shift around the role of alcohol in her life. “Whatever you do, don’t tell people you don’t drink. They’ll think you’re weird.” Last night I attended an international...
Cecily Mak
Practice Response Flexibility to Improve Your Resilience
Linda Graham, MFT and author of Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty and Even Disasters looks at the power of response flexibility, an important aspect of resilience. ...
Linda Graham, MFT
The Joy of Missing Out (From FOMO to JOMO)
We’ve all heard of FOMO. “The fear of missing out,” the anxiety that an exciting event may be happening that you’re not a part of. This initially was a term assigned to teens, often exacerbated...
Honoring the Voice That Says, You’ve Had Enough
I had enough recently. So I stopped. In hindsight I didn’t realize that pause was coming but had a vague awareness of overwhelm creeping up on me, a barely audible whisper telling me I was trying to do too much...
How to Stop Allowing Fear to Run Your Life
Fear can be the ultimate ruler of your life, if allowed. It can whisper in your ear that you’re not good enough, you’re a fraud, you won’t be able to do it, you’ll be made fun of, you’ll...
How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain
This is incredibly relevant to people all over the world who are losing themselves to their smartphones. Classified as an addiction by many, it’s impacting relationships and likely changing brains of our young...
Feeling Unlovable: How to Reclaim Your Lovability
Linda Graham, MFT and author of Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being, looks at how “unlovability” is wired into the brain and the experience of rejection gets encoded in...
It’s February, Write a Love Letter to Yourself
The beginning of February signals that Valentines Day is near. For those in loving, intimate relationships who put a lot of meaning into this holiday, they may be all atwitter about how they will spend time with a...
