Anxiety 
Calming the Spinning Thoughts of Anxiety (0)
People who suffer with the distressing symptoms of anxiety often experience rumination, or recurrent worry and thought spinning. This can greatly impact sleep and daily living. The negative cyclical thinking tends to have a spiraling effect – where the person ends up at the worst possible scenario – “Something bad will happen to me,” or [...]
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Catch Yourself Being Good by Michael Miller, PhD
The most powerful change strategy for children’s behavior problems is the parents increasing the focus on positive behavior and reinforcing those behaviors. A powerful strategy of improving your mood and self-esteem is increasing positive self-talk. Human nature is such that most of us look for when we make mistakes and then be self-critical. Much of [...]
Emotional Overload: One Thing You can do Right Now to Soothe Yourself
Intense emotions such as anger, fear and sadness can be crippling in the moment. They can feel like they “take you over.” In a way, they do. This is because if you are so upset that your brain is literally in a “fight-or-flight” mode, there is likely a lot of cortisol (the stress hormone) coursing through [...]
Steps to Identify Your Unhelpful Belief Systems
Do you struggle with anger, depression or anxiety and have the sense that it might have roots somewhere in your past? Trust your instincts. There’s likely something there worth taking a look at.
I work extensively with people in individual therapy to assist them in working through the past – to move on in the present. [...]
