How to stop ruminating
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”Abraham Maslow Rumination, the way…
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April 15, 2022
Narrative Therapy
Narrative Therapy is a type of psychotherapy that was originally coined and created by Michael White and David Epstein from Australia and New Zealand respectively, and has been developed and…
March 22, 2022
Review of 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
I finished this moderate-length book very quickly, which I attribute to it being a very well-written, thought-provoking, and intelligently articulated work. I listened to the audio version, and the narration…
March 19, 2022
Corrective experiences from fear facing
“If you die once every day, then you’ll know what life is about.”Wim Hof Preface The fear I faced in this story involves spending time in very cold water. Not…
March 11, 2022
Balance
As a metaphor for emotional regulation, I’ve been thinking about the simple image of balancing on top of a ball lately. The one in my imagination looks like one of…
March 7, 2022
Resources for finding purpose and meaning
I’d like to preface this by saying that books such as these are no guarantee to immediately finding your purpose or calling. Doing so is not usually a small…
March 6, 2022
Resources for getting better sleep and alleviating insomnia
Huberman's Sleep Toolkit A collection of 12 strategies for getting better sleep from one of the top health and neuroscience experts: https://www.hubermanlab.com/newsletter/toolkit-for-sleep Books What better way to lull your insomnia…
March 4, 2022
Healing vs fixing
“If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill, let yourself fall ill.”Rumi It’s not uncommon to hear clients use the word “fix” in session, often said with some amount of…
February 24, 2022
“It won’t be the same”
“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over again to annihilation, can that which is indestructible in us be found.”Pema Chodron Many people come to a therapist…
February 13, 2022
Humanistic Therapy
If all the theories I draw from were like different sections of an orchestra or band, perhaps humanistic therapy would be the percussion section - always present in the background,…
February 1, 2022