With practice you can become less caught up in thoughts and more embodied. Here are some audio recordings designed to help.
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Mindfulness Meditations
Mindfulness meditation has great potential to help become more present and embodied. Here are three mindfulness practices you can try.
Transformational Talks
How to Make Stress Your Friend
Psychologist Kelly McGonigal flips the common view on stress on it’s head. Various studies reveal some very interesting results.
The Power of Exercise to Change the Brain
Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki shares her personal journey and her research that revealed the benefits of exercise for the brain.
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Feel the Burn: How to Process Stress and Anxiety in the Body
What we resist persists. Is it true? Well, yes it turns out it is. But we can learn to stop resisting. It takes practice and commitment, and gradually we can make a shift.
Mindfulness Meditations
Mindfulness meditation has great potential to help become more present and embodied. Here are three mindfulness practices you can try.
Deep Relaxation Practices
With practice you can become less caught up in thoughts and more embodied. Here are some audio recordings designed to help.
Talking to Children about Traumatic Loss
Talking to children about trauma is difficult because we don’t want to expose them to such painful subjects. But if we are caring and honest in how we communicate, it can be a healing experience for everyone.
Why Avoiding Anxiety Makes it Worse, and What to do Instead
When we experience anxiety, naturally we want to get away from it. But avoiding the anxiety doesn’t help, in fact it makes it worse. Here are some suggestions for learning to stay with the feeling.
CBT Technique: Debunking Anxious Thoughts
When we are anxious we tend to have thoughts that don’t reflect what is actually happening. By learning to identify these thoughts we can begin to let them go and think more clearly, thus decreasing our anxiety.
Closing the Gap Between Anxiety and Climate Change
As the knowledge and understanding of climate change becomes more mainstream, more people are feeling anxiety about the course humanity is taking with planet earth. Ecopsychology helps us recognize that this anxiety is actually sane, and that we can use it to help our selves, and our planet.
Waking Up: Transpersonal Strategies for Anxiety Reduction
Transpersonal practices and techniques, such as yoga, meditation, and spending time in nature can be of tremendous benefit to mental health, and can reduce anxiety.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Anxiety Relief
Dialectic Behavior Therapy balances four elements: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. This article focuses on emotional regulation.
Therapeutic Bodywork 101 for Anxiety Relief
Therapeutic bodywork helps us think less, to feel our body more, and to be more present for our life, easing stress and anxiety.
How to Make Stress Your Friend
Psychologist Kelly McGonigal flips the common view on stress on it’s head. Various studies reveal some very interesting results.
The Power of Exercise to Change the Brain
Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki shares her personal journey and her research that revealed the benefits of exercise for the brain.
Vulnerability and Connection
Researcher Brené Brown studies human connection, love and vulnerability. In this inspiring Ted talk she shares her personal experience and some of her discoveries.
Finding Stability in Your Routine
Examining and stabilizing your day to day routine can provide powerful leverage to stabilize your state of mind. More stability can help ease stressful and anxious feelings, giving you more balance and ease.
Nutrition 101 for Anxiety Relief
Balanced nutrition is one of the foundations of good physical, mental and emotional health. It’s difficult to have one without the others.
Are Your Day to Day Activities Aligned with Your Life Goals?
It’s easy to forget our inspirations and goals in life. Here is a process to help you remember, and to synchronize your activities more with how you want your life to be.
Hardwiring Happiness
Dr. Rick Hanson gives a brief but brilliant tour of the brain and happiness, then offers a powerful practice to transform our brain and our life.
Nutritional Basics
Here is a Ted Educational video explaining the basics of nutrition. It’s light, enjoyable and delivers some great information on nutrition.
Hakomi Introductory Videos
Hakomi is a method of mindfulness somatic psythotherapy created by Ron Kurtz. Here are three videos to introduce Hakomi.
Five Steps to Freedom from Anxious Rumination
Rumination is a mental process of recycling negative thoughts over and over. Here is a process to help you break free and to allow more natural space in your state of mind.
Slipping on the Ice of Thoughts
Mindfulness has the potential to help us with anxiety. However it doesn’t help by simply making the anxiety go away. Rather it is a process of becoming more familiar with how anxiety actually works, which helps us to gradually step out of its grips.
Dealing with Anxiety during Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Beyond
If you suffer from postpartum depression and/or anxiety, there are things you can do to ease your symptoms, and there is support in the community.
Moving Towards Discomfort: The Paradox Of Healing
Accepting and making friends with our difficulties seems the hardest thing to do. But when anxiety persists despite our best efforts, ironically this approach can offer deep peace and relief.
Can Dream Analysis Lower My Anxiety?
Sometimes it’s possible to identify the source of our anxiety in a simple cause and effect manner. Dream analysis is one way that can help us discover such a cause or causes.
Brief Intro to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
OCD otherwise known as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder happens when people get stuck in loops of unwanted thinking patterns. Understanding its dynamics can help one know how to approach seeking relief.
Laughter: It’s Funny and it Matters
Screenwriter Anthony McCarten explains, and demonstrates, why laughter is such an important part of life. An enjoyable and hilarious watch.
Utilizing Mindfulness to Relieve Anxiety in Motherhood
Becoming a mother is not always fulfilling and enjoyable, and can even bring on anxiety and depression. Here is a story of one mother who used mindfulness to help her move forward and find a loving connection with her child.
Is Your Teen Shy or Socially Anxious?
Being a teen is a challenging time. Being shy and/or having social anxiety makes the challenge all the more difficult. Understanding the difference between shyness and social anxiety can be helpful.
Anxiety Relief Techniques for People in Addiction Recovery
For people recovering from addiction, anxiety can be an issue that propels one to take substances for relief. But there are effective ways to relieve anxiety that can also contribute to the journey of recovery.
Stress, Anxiety, and Relaxation
Stress is natural and in fact a health biological function. However when allowed to accumulate stress will become problematic, and lead to other issues such as anxiety. Here are some things you can do to alleviate unhealthy stress and anxiety.