Health - Mental
Maintenance and healing
Health - Mental
Delaying action often carries hidden costs that can be easily overlooked:
Missed Opportunities
When we don't take action, we miss out on valuable chances to grow, learn, and succeed.
Wasted Time
Time is precious. Every day spent hesitating is a day that could have been used to build, create, and advance toward your goals. Procrastination extends... See more
Missed Opportunities
When we don't take action, we miss out on valuable chances to grow, learn, and succeed.
Wasted Time
Time is precious. Every day spent hesitating is a day that could have been used to build, create, and advance toward your goals. Procrastination extends... See more
The Hidden Costs of Not Taking Action + Journal Prompts + Mentorship
While the smoke detector is usually pretty good at picking up danger clues, trauma increases the risk of misinterpreting whether a particular situation is dangerous or safe.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The emotion of fear often works overtime. Even when there is no immediate threat, our body may remain tight and on guard, our mind narrowed to focus on what might go wrong. When this happens, fear is no longer functioning to secure our survival. We are caught in the trance of fear and our moment-to-moment experience becomes bound in reactivity. We... See more
Tara Brach • Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of R.A.I.N.
By their questions and their attention, their careful probing and investigative stealth, the therapist tries – harder than anyone may yet have done – to discover how our presenting problem might be related to the rest of our existence and, in particular, to the turmoils of childhood. Over many sessions, a succession of small discoveries contributes
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
"Sadness will not kill you. Depression won’t, either. But fighting it will. Ignoring it will."
— Brianna Wiest
— Brianna Wiest
Patients are asked to identify the part involved in the current problem, like feeling worthless, abandoned, or obsessed with vengeful thoughts. As they ask themselves, “What inside me feels that way?” an image may come to mind.16 Maybe the depressed part looks like an abandoned child, or an aging man, or an overwhelmed nurse taking care of the
... See moreBessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
We often fear that letting go means losing something essential: identity, stability, connection, status.
But what we often gain instead is space.
Room to breathe. Room to grieve. Room to grow.
The truth is, you can’t receive what’s next if your hands are full of what’s no longer yours to carry.
Whether it’s a belief, a plan, or a person — some things
... See moreJust as Bowlby had observed, securely attached infants are distressed when their mother leaves them, but they show delight when she returns, and after a brief check-in for reassurance, they settle down and resume their play.