Building a Resilient Brain After Loss for Long-Term Healing
This article by Dr. Kate Truitt addresses building a resilient brain after loss and provides a wealth of tools for long-term healing.
The Neuroscience of Seasonal Affective Disorder
Is there a shift in your moods? Are you feeling down or maybe a little depressed? These feelings may be signs of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).
Navigating Trauma: How to Build Your Emotional Safe Space
Trauma impacts our lives and affects us in countless ways. You have the power to create your emotional safe space and create healing from within.
SNAP Your Way out of the Grip of Generalized Anxiety
Did you know that the experience of anxiety is a part of daily life? Like all of our emotions, it exists to alert us concerns so that we may take action and create change. Generalized anxiety, on the other hand, is just there in the forefront.
Transforming Negativity Bias into Positive Empowerment
Did you know that your brain is hard-wired to look for negative, difficult, or painful things? This is called a “negativity bias,” which means that in your data-processing system, anything negative gets priority attention.
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria Understanding and Healing
Rejection is difficult for anyone to experience, but some people undergo it with much greater intensity than most others. If that is the case for you, it may be that you are experiencing what is known as rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD).
Wake Up on the Right Side of the Bed Using Neuroplasticity
Waking up on the wrong side of the bed is a real thing. But we have the power of neuroplasticity on our side. Because of our brains are malleable, we have an opportunity to make changes to our neural connections that can help us experience a good night of restful sleep.
Challenging Difficult Thoughts to Create Personal Empowerment
Anytime you notice that your brain is beating you up to keep you “safe,” take a moment for challenging difficult thoughts to find kinder ways of getting safe.
Welcome to the New Year Reframing the Difficult Into New Opportunities
The new year is upon us—the time where we traditionally review the previous year. In this article focus on the opportunities that await you in the coming year.
Breaking Unhealthy Habits: Change Through Finding Purpose
Finding our purpose significantly increases the ease with which we are able to create sustainable change. It helps us more readily link into new behaviors that align with our desire to live our purpose.
Shame and Self Judgment Opportunities for Self-Healing
Shame is awful to experience, whether we are being shamed by others or shaming ourselves, but as humans we are hard-wired to experience feelings of shame. Learn about the opportunities for self-healing in shame and self-judgment.
Overcoming Worry by Deepening Your Relationship With It
Why do we worry? So often my patients will tell me that worry is dumb, and that there is no need for it. Actually, we do need to worry, but we need to put it into an appropriate context. It is important to go back to the beginning of the worry process and notice the “Why” of it.