PSYCHOLOGY OF US

It’s time to talk commitment, ladies: Commitment to yourself! Already February is sneaking by, so let’s check in with our New Year’s resolutions. Every New Year presents us with a fresh start to make the changes we know will improve our health and lives. Life-long habits are difficult to break, but you have the power to change […]

Surviving the Holidays with Grace: 3 Strategies to Disarm Your Emotional Triggers The holidays bring families together and along with holiday cheer comes a host of old relationship dynamics. I am the youngest of three children. Growing up with a single mom, I was often fighting for attention. As an adult, that same child-like frustration […]

Do You Have Post-Traumatic Stress? Do You Have Post-Traumatic Stress We commonly hear about extreme events such as fatal accidents, war, or terrorist attacks leading to post-traumatic stress. However, trauma expert, Bessel van der Kolk, states that negative experiences don’t have to be extreme to be traumatic. Trauma is any experience that overwhelms our normal capacities to […]

Feeling Stuck? Fight Your Resistance Dragon Dr. Jena Field introduced us to the topic of  “feeling stuck” in her precious post, Can’t Move Forward? Try This When You’re Stuck Feeling Meh. This is the second of her 2 part series. You are not the problems that stand in your way. The problems are the problems. Work the […]

Feeling Lonely? You’re Not the Only One Loneliness makes it harder for us to connect with others, but there is hope. ‘Loneliness can damage your health and even shorten your life span, chimes the Washington Post. Well that’s just great. Now, not only am I feeling lonely, I am ‘triggering inflammation’ in my body and ‘neurological […]

How to Catch Depression Early On When we think of depression, we may imagine being permanently pyjama-clad, lying in bed or on the sofa in a dark room, unable to move. Clinical depression (or major depressive disorder) can look this way and the Internet and media often paint this picture. If we research depression symptoms […]