A Time of Uncertainty & Mystery with Covid-19
As I write this blog post, I have made many changes in my life. I have closed my private practice and I have moved out of New Jersey. It’s…
How Being Uncertain Will Help Calm You
Anxiety Series: The Anxiety Game If you’ve been following along in my Anxiety Series blog posts, you’ve learned quite a lot already about anxiety. You’ve learned…….. The more you pull…
How to Figure Out if Your Worries Can Help You……or Not
Anxiety Series: Signal or Noise? Jonathan couldn’t sleep all night, due to the fact that he was worried he forgot to pay the electric bill. Lucy couldn’t sleep all night,…
How a Vision of a Happier You Can Motivate You
Anxiety Series: Develop an Overcome Picture Does anxiety creep into your life, into your day? Do you worry? Is your life limited because you are too worried to go out…
What Your Brain Can Teach You About Your Anxiety
Anxiety Series: Helpful Anxiety Stories #1. Your Relationship to Anxiety Do you remember this childhood toy, the Chinese Finger Trap in the photo to the right? What happens when you…
My Anxiety Over Anxiety
Anxiety Series: Introduction When I started my private practice 5-1/2 years ago, and I started seeing clients who had anxiety……..I joke that I had anxiety over treating clients with…
A Simple Way to Calm Yourself
Client after client has been coming into my office in the past few months saying they have managed to calm themselves in the midst of chaos around them. Want…
Do You Struggle with Holiday Stress?
Thanksgiving is here, and then it's a busy December with holiday parties, family/work events, gift buying, food preparation. Yikes! I bet your life was already busy without all these extra…
33 Ways to Feel Better…..When Bad News Keeps Coming
Hurricane Harvey in Houston. Hurricane Irma in Florida, Hurricane Marie in Puerto Rico. 2 Earthquakes in Mexico. The latest mass shooting in Las Vegas. We’re all feeling overwhelmed. Do…
5 More Thought Errors Messing You Up
Now that you’ve looked for the first 5 thought errors………could you be making any from the rest of the list?! Read here to check out thought errors 6-10. MAGNIFICATION (CATASTROPHIZING):…