When new therapy clients sit down in front of me for the first time, my curiosity is always piqued around not only who they are and what kind of help they are seeking, but also their level of psychological awareness...
Tag - self compassion
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Addressing the Problem of Feeling Unlovable
The problem of feeling unlovable is a deep and complex issue for many people, often for those you would never suspect have a poor sense of self in how well they hide it. There are also those who behave in ways who...
Self-Compassion Trumps Self-Esteem
Linda Graham, MFT puts the spotlight on self-compassion and dissects the book by Dr. Kristin Neff, PhD with the same title. Self-compassion is strongly linked to resilience as well as a counter to depression and...
Linda Graham, 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...
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. ...
4 Ways to Build Emotional Resilience
Do you bounce back from challenging experiences? Or do you get caught in a whirlwind of difficult emotions, feeling vulnerable, lost or out of control? Emotional resilience is the ability to adapt well to stressful...
Being Compassionate and Being Too Busy Often Don’t Mix
Linda Graham, MFT looks at the challenge that being “too busy” creates for maintaining a sense of kindness and compassion to others. She offers an exercise to help you slow down and practice self-compassion...
Tools for Resilience: Cultivating Self Compassion
Linda Graham, MFT explores the power of self compassion to increase resilience. There are tools and techniques of “self-directed neuroplasticity” that will help you harness the capacities of your brain to...
