Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotion Regulation, Mindfulness
Emotions or feelings, both positive and negative, are bits of important feedback for us, they’re telling us something and we can choose to listen to them, fight them, or avoid them. Here is a very interesting article about emotions and feelings on the Wall Street...
Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Monday was World Mental Health Day and this week is OCD Awareness Week, where we are set to promote awareness, education and understanding of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and related conditions! What you can do this week: Speak up and call people out when they...
Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
We all create a way in which we make sense of our lives by creating “stories” or “narratives” about different life events, memories, experiences, who we are or who we are not, what make sense to us, and an infinite number of themes. Our mind is constantly...
Behavior change, Anxiety, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotion Regulation, Empirically supported treatments, Mindfulness
There are times when we become so emotionally overwhelmed by anxiety, anger, sadness, frustration, and other emotions, that we lose our connection with our bodies and the world around us, as if we’re fully disconnecting. We feel the intensity of the emotions...
Behavior change, Anxiety, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Empirically supported treatments, Exposure, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
We recently interviewed David Adam, author of The Man Who Couldn’t Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought. He’s been featured in the New York Times and NPR because of his story. Here is what you need to keep in mind when reading this...
Behavior change, Emotion Regulation, Empirically supported treatments, Interpersonal problems, Parent series: emotion regulation
What is “emotional dysregulation”? Adolescence is a complex developmental period with many remarkable changes occurring; emotion dysregulation may occur when adolescents experience their emotions as intense and overwhelming, as “feeling too much, too quick and...
