The Bluff of “Have To”
March 7, 2022
By Clarissa W. Ong, PhD, coauthor of The Anxious Perfectionist We tend to think that we don’t have choices, that we have to do certain things. I have to work… READ MORE
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Justice is Therapeutic
February 20, 2022
By Thema Bryant, PhD, coauthor of The Antiracism Handbook While many psychology models focus solely on shifting thoughts and coping with emotions, social-justice-oriented approaches such as multicultural feminist psychology and… READ MORE
Active Acceptance in the Face of Uncertainty
February 14, 2022
By Jennifer Shannon, LMFT, author of The Monkey Mind Workout for Uncertainty A few days ago, Pat—my ninety-year-old mother-in-law who lives in an assisted living facility—sent us a text from… READ MORE
Why Sometimes No Amount of Reassurance Is Enough
December 9, 2019
By Martin N. Seif, PhD, and Sally M. Winston, PhD, coauthors of Needing to Know for Sure When confronted with uncertainty, it is natural to seek some reassurance that our solution… READ MORE
Everything You Wanted to Know About Anxiety—From an Expert
May 11, 2018
An Interview with Anxiety Expert Edmund Bourne, PhD In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we reached out to anxiety expert and self-help veteran Edmund Bourne—author of the bestselling classic,… READ MORE
What to Do When Fear Strikes
October 27, 2017
by Amoda Maa Jeevan Fear does not belong to you. Do not take ownership of it. There is a lot of fear in the world now. There are many earthquakes in… READ MORE
4 Fear-Based Routines That Get You Stuck
September 20, 2017
by Kate Swoboda, CCLC, author of The Courage Habit One of the most frustrating aspects of changing behavior is that we can logically know what we need to do in… READ MORE
The Healing Power of Mindfulness
September 13, 2017
By Rob Brandsma, author of The Mindfulness Teaching Guide “The conscious mind is a self-healing mind,” says psychiatrist and philosopher Roger Walsh. He is right. Just look at fear for example. The… READ MORE
Helping Teen Worriers Break the Worry and Anxiety Cycle
January 17, 2017
By Sheila Achar Josephs, PhD Most teens report feeling stressed out every so often, but for teens who chronically worry, the sense of being one step away from disaster never… READ MORE
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