Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Are you struggling with obsessive thoughts or excessive fears about contamination, illnesses, death, harm, or doing things right, that are keeping you from living your life? Are your compulsions of checking, or cleaning or checking again disrupting work, school, or...
Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Interpersonal problems, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD series: adults
Many people experience doubts about their intimate relationships. They ask themselves, “is this the person for me?,” “Does this person truly love me?, “Is my partner being loyal?” “Is my partner cheating on me?” Clinicians make it clear that...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Behavior change
Dear Readers, The next TED talk is given by one of the founders of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Steve Hayes, Ph.d. this is a very intimate talk about his struggles, how he learn to live with and learn from them, and how he made a promise to himself to make a...
Behavior change, Interpersonal problems, Mindfulness
In the previous post, Communication SOS: What do you want? you learned to recognize your emotions as the first step to really pay attention to what you need or want. Here is the next important skill when dealing with others: making requests. Making requests of others...
Anxiety, Emotion Regulation
You’ve committed to practicing grounding, your awareness has increased, you’re ready to make your thoughts and feelings known. Not so fast. Ask yourself “What do I want to happen in this situation?” This is a much more involved question than...
Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Parents, are there behaviors in which you and your child or teenager engages in that repeatedly lead to conflict? Have you tried to manage these behaviors through punishment, only to find that they continue to occur time and again? If you answered “yes” to the above...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotion Regulation, Empirically supported treatments, Interpersonal problems
You have been trying really hard to manage your teen’s behavior, and maybe by now you have already read many books, took your teen to many therapists, offered your teen money, removed the cell phone, forbidden him to see his friends, denied buying music from...
