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Sleep Your Way to Health…and Better Coping
I’ve long known and respected the sheer efficacy of a good night’s sleep for being able to face the details, let alone the difficulties, of daily living and coping. Here’s the link to an excellent resource by Emily Alexander on 20 Tips to Fall Asleep Faster and Enjoy Better Sleep. Excellent and clearly outlined research […]
When to Hide Under the Covers: the Skillfulness of Skillful Distraction
Years ago I heard Dr. O. Carl Simonton advise his cancer patients: “Every day do what you need to do to deal with the cancer, keep your doctor’s appointments, take your medications. Do what’s required. Then for the rest of the day, live your life.” All life is lived in a rhythm of activity and […]
Peace in the Best of Times, in the Worst of Times
Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart. -author unknown, on a coffee cup given to Linda by a friend In the northern hemisphere, we’re heading into […]
Taking Charge – Life Off Screens
I saw the film Screenagers Next Chapter: Uncovering Skills for Stress Resilience last week – “screenagers” being the term acknowledging how much time modern teens spend on screens, more time than anything else except sleep, sometimes even more than sleep. The film documents the measurable and rapid rise of stress, anxiety, and depression among American […]
Is Slowing Down Essential to Resilience?
On my way to an early morning doctor’s appointment, my car got a flat tire. Drove to the neighborhood tire shop instead. They could replace the tire in an hour, in time for me to begin seeing clients for the rest of the day. I walked home, walking down a street I had driven almost […]
Hiding Under the Covers…Resiliently
Sometimes when our world is crashing in on us or collapsing out from under us, we just want to hide under the covers and wait until it’s over. I teach many, many tools for recovering our resilience and coping with the catastrophes and challenges of life. And one of those tools IS to unplug and […]
The Ground of Well-Being That Can Meet Troubles or Trauma
As we learn in this interview with Dr. Richard Miller, we can find a moment of refuge or sanctuary that taps us into our own well-being as an inner resource for our resilience. Here’s an exercise from Resilience to find that moment of refuge. Exercise: Resting in Well-Being This exercise helps you tap into […]
Cultivating a Base of Emotional Tranquility
Recent posts have suggested tools of focused processing to help you attend to and make sense of your emotions, to manage and rewire difficult negative emotions, and to use positive emotions to shift the functioning of your brain and to shift your moods and states of being. You can continue using those tools whenever necessary; […]