Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: “Is This Thought Helpful?”
There are countless tools we can leverage to improve our mental health. In this post, we examine a new one: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Anxiety
Memory Pointers: How Our Brains Trick Us Into Even More Anxiety
Memory pointers are a technical but crucial component of computer programming. In this one, we relate them to our experience of anxiety.
The Problem with the Law of Attraction
Manifesting our reality with our thoughts? Sounds great. But not all is well: come find out what the problem with the Law of Attraction is.
The Mind-Body Connection: How Stress Escapes Our Brains and Wreaks Havoc
The mind-body connection helps explain why we sometimes feel awful when we’re stressed out. In this post, you’ll learn even more about its effects.
Pattern Recognition: Fighting Despair with Awareness
Learning the skill of pattern recognition helps us determine which thoughts cause our anguish to grow and pushes us to alter them when they arise.
Face Your Fear: A New, Grounded Take on a Trite Mantra
Cliché phrases are rarely helpful. But, in this post, we’ll put a new spin on an old one (“face your fear”) and use it to gain a leg up against anxiety.
The Sirens: How Anxiety Tempts Us to Shipwreck
Anxiety often tempts us to pay attention to it, much like the sirens from Greek mythology do. Yet, we’ll likely find ourselves in trouble if we oblige.
Occlumency: How to Manage Anxiety Like a Wizard
In the wizarding world, there’s an obscure form of magic — Occlumency — that shows us how to better manage our anxiety. We dive into it here.
Why Anxiety and Visualization Don’t Mix
Anxiety and visualization can make for a destructive duo. Come find out why we’re better off ditching the latter when it comes to the former.
Coronaphobia: Making Sense of COVID Fears Once More
With cases spiking again across the country, it’s time to determine how to proceed with a new phobia we’re encountering: Coronaphobia.