Originally posted December 16, 2019. Have a peaceful holiday season, with a side of realism! In May of 2018, Cigna surveyed 20,000...

Originally posted December 6, 2019. Trauma survivors are made particularly anxious by the hoopla around the holidays. Because of the fear...

Updated June, 2023 How effective are everyday stress management techniques in helping keep a person healthy? How strongly do everyday...

Originally posted October 17, 2019. When Ted’s daughter Vivian FaceTimed him from college, she seemed a bit down. He suspected it was...

Originally posted September 15, 2019. It was a few months before Sarah felt she trusted me enough to reveal what she felt was her deepest...

One day, Dave was having a quiet day in his workshop. He was working on his model trains, his favorite hobby. He was looking at the...

I guess you all know by now that the two celebrities, Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, took their own lives this past week.  Of course,...

The ABC PLEASE skills are the first floor in the house of happiness. Think of the ABC PLEASE skills as extreme self-care, to help you manag

The ABC PLEASE skills are the first floor in the House of Happiness. Train yourself to develop habits of joy and contentment.

The Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) section of Emotion Regulation educates about emotions and provides skills to manage strong emotions

Updated August, 2021 Mindfulness skills can be applied to everyday life, used on an ordinary, everyday basis. We continue with learning...

DBT’s Emotional Regulation skills help a person build up a base of positive experiences that helps stabilize emotion

Updated August, 2021 Mindfulness doesn’t need to be all sitting alone and trying to concentrate! Those of us who have very active minds...

Updated August, 2021 DBT for Managing Emotions for New Moms Taking care of a newborn is all encompassing. It is exhausting. And it’s...

Originally posted January 22, 2019. Joe’s a pretty emotionally balanced person with pretty good boundaries. And still, people got under...

Originally posted January 9, 2019. Happy reading! Thank you to my loving readers for visiting my humble blog! Looking back at the dynamic...

Originally posted November 27, 2018. 6 DBT Skills to Nurture Your Mental Health During the Holiday Rush Lots of us get flustered during...

Originally posted November 21, 2018. Hobby Corner: A lifetime of loving Lionel Trains! America, reclaim your leisure time from social...

Originally posted April 24, 2018. Clara had an accident about two years ago. She had slipped on the ice in her driveway, fallen and as...

Updated August, 2021 Research shows that practicing a mindfulness skill 5 -6 times a day over a time period of 4 -6 weeks, for only 30 ...