We all go through periods of emotional difficulty at times. Neurological studies have shown emotional pain networks overlap with physical pain networks in your brain, so we feel emotional pain in a very real way. How can you effectively care for yourself when you are suffering with emotional pain? Here are a few tips that may help. …
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For The New Year: Know What Matters
New Years is a common time to make resolutions and set goals for the new year. But before setting goals for ourselves, it can be helpful to get clear about what our values are. In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, identifying values means identifying what is it that is most important in your life. It means getting clear about what really matters, what you want to stand for in …
Equanimity: Finding Peace Of Mind
How do we find peace and calm in our lives when life seems to present us with so many hard and difficult situations? Doing therapy in San Francisco, every day I am reminded of how we all face problems in our lives. Problems with health, relationships, work, or finances are common. One universal of being a human being is we all face difficulties and sometimes tragedies. We are …