How to befriend difficult emotions
First understand your difficult emotions The first step in growing the ability to be with our difficult emotions is to understand them. Befriending these emotions means first to get to know our autonomic …
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Use the Upside of Stress and Rise to the Challenges of Life
“We get stressed if something important to us is at stake.”, explains Kelly McGonigal in her book, The Upside of Stress. What happens in our body is designed to help us deal with …
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Reducing Stress with Curiosity
Do you know what curiosity feels like? It’s a joyous, exciting state of mind that draws us closer to the object of our investigation. Learning to be with our thoughts and feelings can …
New Year’s Self-Review Instead of Resolutions
In this post I share an alternative to New Year’s Resolutions. I call it New Year’s Self-review. If you’ve ever failed to stick to your resolutions this alternative approach may help you. Why …
