Emotional / Mental Health Articles 
Being in the Moment and Why it Matters (0)
Mindfulness. Presence. Being in the moment. All three of the above essentially mean the same thing – and practicing them can bring you more emotional and relationship health. It’s a practice, a reconditioning and training of your mind that can be done in meditation – or in every day life simply bringing your attention to things you [...]
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Reflections on Gratitude – Even for the Hard Stuff by Linda Graham, MFT
Gratitude works its magic – to buffer us from falling into swamps of grudge, trauma and suffering in the first place, or pulling ourselves out of those swamps once we’ve woken up to knowing that we’re not in our right mind or heart space anymore – by bringing us to the experiences of loving awareness [...]
Cling Less, Love More by Rick Hanson, PhD
Why? As a rock climber and a parent, I know some physical kinds of clinging are good – like to small holds or small hands! But clinging as a psychological state has a feeling of tension in it, and drivenness, insistence, obsession, or compulsion. As experiences flow through the mind – seeing, hearing, planning, worrying, [...]
Do One Scary Thing a Day by Linda Graham, MFT
The scary things we could choose to do each day could vary quite a bit from person to person or even for ourselves from one day to the next. Choosing to go through our records to prepare for an IRS audit would feel pretty scary on any day, but some days just checking our bank [...]
