Anxiety, depression, pain and suffering can be distracting, challenging and a barrier to our true self. We buy into our emotions as unsolvable or caused by others. Can we pause, detach from our thoughts and see the reality of our life from a perspective that holds our values and true sense of self. Many times the solution is within us to learn to face anxiety.
In this Ted Talk Steven Hayes explains how ACT provided a solution to anxiety and panic in his life.
On the mind’s extraordinary capacity to explain what it cannot yet afford to examine You are in the middle of explaining a decision; to a partner, a friend, a therapist, or simply to yourself at two in the morning; and somewhere in the middle of the explanation, something happens. Not a dramatic recognition. Something quieter….
Dr. Orna Guralnik and the psychodynamic dimension hiding in plain sight If you have watched Couples Therapy on Paramount and found yourself unexpectedly moved; not by the conflict, not by the drama, but by something quieter happening in the room; you have been watching psychodynamic work. You may not have known to call it that….
– On the absence that shapes everything and the work of becoming one’s own man Somewhere in the middle of a session, usually when we have been working together long enough that the real material has begun to surface, a man will say something that stops the room. Not dramatically; quietly. Almost as an aside….
– On the one spiritual language that appeared on every continent and what that might mean for how seriously we take it Say the word astrology in a room full of otherwise open-minded, intellectually curious people and watch what happens. The connection between astrology and spirituality has been part of human life for five thousand…
When the feeling you cannot afford becomes its opposite — and what lives beneath the performance There is a particular kind of exhaustion that brings people to therapy. Not the exhaustion of overwork or poor sleep, though those may be present too. It is something more specific; a tiredness that seems to come from the…
How the feelings we cannot own become the story we tell about other people There is a particular argument that couples have. It does not matter much what it is ostensibly about; the dishes, the tone of voice, the thing that was said at the party. What matters is the quality of it. Both people…
