Breathing exercises are an excellent way to deal with anxiety. Box breathing is a particularly potent one. In fact, it’s so effective that Navy Seals use it – and they certainly find themselves in, shall we say, slightly unnerving and stressful situations.

Psychotherapy can reshape the self profoundly; life coaching will help you polish it further as if the self were a work of art. And meditation? Well, meditation – if done right - will take your entire self and throw it in trash.

My theory about affirmations is that they work, just not for those people that need them. Therefore, they are effectively useless. To put it in slightly more complex psychological terms – they suck.

I think of discipline in very simple terms. Discipline is the capacity that allows us to direct our behavior to conform to our values. Discipline is also something we can train. And that process isn’t as difficult and convoluted as you may think.

Try out my FREE equanimity meditation. This meditation is geared towards beginners, although everyone can benefit from it.

Keeping a journal is not just a way to keep track of your urges or vent about the miserable day you’ve had. Sure, a journal can do both of these things and it can be a useful, healthy thing to do, but they can help with much more than that.

There are two ways for you to relate to your thoughts. You can be glued to them or you can be free from them. Take your pick.

A long yet still not deep enough overview of anxiety management. Take the ideas and gives them your own spin.

Here’s an idea for a mindfulness exercise if you have a hard time sitting still.

Here are four different exercises that will help you understand some aspects of your BFRBs a bit better: what triggers you, what the urge is really like and how it relates to your thoughts and feelings.

Michel Foucault wrote: “What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know where it will end.”

In this blog, I will explore ideas to use art and journaling as ways of dealing with grief.

Loss leaves a void. Grief is what surrounds that void of loss, and it consists of all the painful memories, images, various associations, thoughts, and feelings that we experience when we’re facing a loss.

Irony gives you more space. For one, it is more forgiving. An ironist knows that her view of the world is not an accurate representation of the world, but merely her construction.

Let’s look at the basics. Self-compassion is about reducing suffering. The mantra for self-compassion is an obvious one but so impossibly difficult to put into practice: it’s better to suffer less than more. We may be tempted to avoid what causes us suffering, but that leads to avoidance which is a level of suffering in its own right. How to deal with this conundrum in everyday life?

The great skeptic, Sextus Empiricus once wrote: “Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.” The cure is here, will you take it?

We live in an age where anxiety disorder pose a serious mental health and even a public health problem. Too much anxiety is a problem, but anxiety itself isn’t. Here’s why.