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.

Reflecting on death and other seemingly unpleasant topics, we reinforce our agency, our ability to choose, that creative force that gives meaning to our life. Not so that others can celebrate it once we’re dead, but so that we can enjoy it while we’re alive.

A constructivist acts without full certainty but with curiosity and openness. We act based on our hypotheses, but we understand them as such and are willing to change our minds when circumstances call for it. Change is made easier when we don’t think of our psyche as set in stone or our identity as something real.

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.

Our body is the ultimate medium for our unconscious mind. Its wide palette of symbols is a great tool to express anything that we can’t adequately put into words, sometimes because it’s very important not to, other times simply because language isn’t enough.

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.

Acceptance sounds simple but it’s a tough skill to master. It requires us to swallow many bitter pills. Here’s how you can bring more acceptance into your life using mindfulness.

Acceptance is a radical but often a misunderstood concept. When I talk about acceptance, my clients often hear “give up”. In fact, acceptance is the necessary pre-condition for change. One way to look at acceptance is to see it as radical honesty.

Constructivism has a very particular relationship to emotions, different than any other type of psychology. Here’s how the constructivist understanding of our emotional lives can help us grow.

What can mindfulness bring into your life? Here’s how you can think about your mindfulness practice and the fruits it bears.