You just picked your skin. What can you do to protect yourself from infection and begin cultivating a healthy, compassionate relationship to your skin?

Boredom is a far more complex mental state than we usually assume. Let’s try to give it some shape and understand it from a constructivist perspective.

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.

Politics and bad news can be a wonderful opportunity to practice being non-reactive, being mindful of (negative) emotions, as well to become more aware of what your values are and what’s the best way to live and communicate them.

One way to look at forgiveness is as the process of clearing space, removing the debris from an open wound so that you can attend to it properly.

Deep layers of our experience often carry the information that needs to be worked through and dealt with, but those layers don’t speak English - or any other language you can find a course for. They speak through our bodies.

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.

In 2001, the U.S. Surgeon General identified racial trauma as the attributing factor to ethnic and racial disparities. Racial trauma is often accompanied by other elements of systemic racism such as socio-economic equality that further perpetuates the racial trauma.

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 is no self-creation outside of relationships with others because others are critical mirrors of our creative psychological endeavors. Others show us the constructs we use but might not be conscious of, and they give us feedback that validates or invalidates them – other will, therefore, propel us toward change or validate us as we are now.

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.

When you’re having a hard time finding one replacement habit on your BFRB journey try creating a whole self-soothing kit!

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