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Lots of people tend to underestimate the positive feelings others have toward them–maybe especially people who are higher in social anxiety or who have good reason to be cautious about…
What happens when you get better and better at playing a video game? Embedded in the answer to that question is a useful way to talk about how you interact…
A huge barrier to living the way we’d like to see ourselves live, and doing the things we know we need to do, is that we frequently just don’t feel…
The science of gratitude is largely clear about its benefits for mental health and life satisfaction. Yet the actual practice of gratitude is frequently mis-applied, misunderstood, and over-simplified. The video…
When attention, presence, and enjoyment fully meld with involvement in an activity, we refer to the resulting state as ‘Flow.’ We know from research that not only are flow experiences…
The ability to increase our enjoyment of positive moments in life is a skill, and it takes some intention and practice to get better at it. The video below introduces…
Ask any person about what it is they want from life, follow up each response with “why do you want that?” and you’ll almost surely end up at a universally…
Research is clear about the psychological (and physical) benefits of connection with others. Turns out, though, that for lots of us it’s not a simple or easy thing to find.…
Need to do something? Get something done? Stop trying to fight yourself into feeling motivated first. Instead of trying to change your feelings, put your energy into taking action. I’m…
Being human can be hard. Developing greater resilience can buffer and bolster our mental health…but why do our brains get in the way sometimes? Shouldn’t our minds help us, instead…
Congratulations! You’re the proud owner of your very own bus. In fact, you always have been. You’ve driven this metaphorical bus around every day of your life. How you drive…
Almost instinctively, we tend to fight against and struggle to avoid our human experiences of painful, distressing thoughts and feelings. Psychological Flexibility, on the other hand, invites us to change…
Chances are you’ve already heard plenty about mindfulness. Problem is, there’s so much saturation of the topic that it’s often presented in inaccurate or unhelpful ways, and it’s easy to…
What makes therapy effective? When I pose this question to my students—offering a list of possible answers that they are to rank order from most to least associated with therapy…
When therapy is working, there are lots of moments where the goals and directions we’re heading together as client and therapist are clear. Where the process can be grasped in…
Religious trauma is a complex and often overlooked phenomenon that can deeply affect an individual’s mental and emotional well-being. It occurs when a person’s experience of their particular religious beliefs…
“I don’t know what to tell you,” a running friend once said. “I get up with every intention of getting out the door but then find myself staring at my…
One thing that unites just about every human who’s ever lived is that at some point, and in one way or another, life gets difficult. And a second thing that’s…
“How do you do it? Walking through life with no compass?” Under the Banner of Heaven, 2022 Going through a faith crisis, fictional LDS detective Jeb Pyre hurls this question…
It’s difficult to find areas in the medical field where boys and men face disadvantages, but the prevention, detection, and treatment of eating disorders is one of them. The terms…
You are struggling to nourish yourself. You obsess over food from sunrise to sundown. You exercise compulsively. The thought of weight going any direction but down consumes your consciousness, stirs…