Category: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
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Freedom from Our Stressful Thoughts – Finding Flexibility in our Anxious Minds
I had the wonderful ‘bucket list’ opportunity to attend the School for The Work with Byron Katie last year. Byron Katie has created a process that helps us question our own stressful thoughts. The school/ conference was chock full of good information and experiential learning, and I thought I would try to organize my experience…
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Dealing With Difficult People: Tips for events where there will be people you find to be difficult
Who are the difficult people in your life? Those people with whom you have tended to feel stress and tension when around? Common examples are: your ex-spouse, an in-law who is more of an out-law, a family member with whom you don’t see eye-to-eye, boss, co-worker, etc. For many of us, there are events, meetings,…
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Letting Go: a challenging [and continual] process in parenting a teenager into young adulthood
Parenting a teenager into their young adulthood can be considered a constant and gradual process of letting go. Your role as a parent changes as your child ages. When they were a baby and learning to crawl, you likely crawled along on the floor with them. Just like that, parents are tasked with continuing to…
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One New, Easy Way to Manage Stressful Thoughts
Today’s blog focuses on a concept by author/ teacher Byron Katie, whose claim to fame is her way of questioning our stressful beliefs. Her concept – called “The Work” https://thework.com/ – uses a set of questions to investigate our thinking and is an application of the principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Thoughts, feelings, and…
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