Mindfulness at Work

Check out this article that shared how to use mindfulness in the workplace for greater effectiveness; Effectiveness within yourself as well as within your work and career overall. https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeshumanresourcescouncil/…

Slow Down

When I want to get an important point across, I tend to have emotions behind it. My emotions will tell me that something is important and therefore I will speak a certain way to appease my mind, feeling as though I am tending to this important…

DEAR MAN

So often when we want to ask for something from someone, or even say, “No” to another person’s request, we get straight to the point; and as a result,many times we get fight back from the other person. By using a different strategy…

To Vent or Not to Vent

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When life hits us hard enough, we sometimes want to let it out and tell all those around us. Venting can be both cathartic as well as ineffective for us if we are not careful as to how we go on and vent. It is a dialectic. Vent to someone…

Selena Gomez Reaching Out for DBT

Photo Credit: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images Even celebrities are fallible and have room for change toward effectiveness. With any lifestyle, one that’s busy or of leisure, distressing emotions could come up and effect your day. Dialectical…

Netflix Time! ‘Nanette’ by Hannah Gadsby

Photo Courtesy of Netflix Do you have Netflix? Do you know someone who does? Have you heard of Hannah Gadsby? Have you heard of Hannah Gadsby’s Netflix stand up special ‘Nanette’? If not, I highly recommend checking it out. It is an…

DBT Skills Group Effectiveness!

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy is not a forever-treatment that one is in for their whole life. When only looking at DBT skills groups, a study showed the effectiveness of DBT skills group on “reducing negative thoughts, feelings and behaviors,…

Take a Five

Dan Harris, from Good Morning America, was interviewed about his personal experience with anxiety and his new book, “10% Happier,” and shared a brief exercise on how to practice mindfulness daily. So why not give it a try: “Find a…

Connect Through Being Mindful

Researchers have found a correlation between an increase of mindfulness in those experiencing a wider range of emotions with improved health; and no affect shown on the specific types of emotions identified in the range. By increasing mindfulness…

Accumulate Positives

“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” This phrase could also say, “All work and no play makes Jack more vulnerable to unwanted emotions.” Finding a balance in what we do each day and each week is important. We can put a toll…