In the practical part of the blog on this topic, we talked about different types of “community.”   We can be “in community” with one person or we can be in a more social type of “community” with multiple people.

No one can tell the future, so we all are forced to sit with uncertainty about what will happen. Anxiety is inherently placed in the future, or the past, because anxiety is rooted in things we cannot control. How we think about the future...

I have an old therapy intervention I have used for years which I simply call, “the two buckets.”  When clients are feeling anxious about different things in their lives, I encourage them to imagine two buckets. One is labeled, “control” and the other is...

“I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself” -Hayao Miyazaki Hayao Miyazaki is a prolific animator from Japan who wrote movies such as Ponyo, Castle in the Sky, Howl’s Moving Castle, and The Wind Rises. His strong opinion is directed at...

In the first half of this blog, we talked about boundaries and how our experiences and personalities (including genetics) affect the way we see and set boundaries. We also talked about visualizing the boundaries you want in your life. For example, maybe you want...

Cognitive behavioral therapy is consistently used in my personal therapeutic approach. It helps teach clients to challenge their thoughts and beliefs. Put them on trial, see if they hold up, are they rational or irrational? Imagery can be used to extend this intervention, to...