I am delighted to be a featured therapist for the Center for Mindful Psychotherapy this month, and I wrote a few pieces just for the occasion. The first is all about my journey and my shift from living entirely in my head to living in both my mind and my body.

Tapping can help you weather tough situations, whether you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed, triggered, or just emotionally exhausted. In this video I show you the basics of tapping, including all of the areas of the body you can tap on.

In this video I show you the basic structure of a signal breath, and then take you through three different ways of taking a signal breath.

A lot of us are afraid to say “no.” Sometimes we don’t want to say no to someone because we really want them to still like us. Sometimes we don’t want to say no because we think it reflects poorly on us—like we can’t do the thing or don’t know how.

Here’s a little video to teach you the salamander. It’s a really easy exercise to do that can help reset your nervous system whenever and wherever you need it.

I have a sticker that reads, “THE FUTURE WILL NOT BE A DISASTER. You just have anxiety, sorry.” I originally picked it out for myself from a pile of stickers that an instructor was handing out during training…

I’ve had 5 therapists over the course of my adult life, some of whom have been more influential to me (in both personal and professional ways, now that I’m also a therapist) than others, but each of them has taught me something really important.

Change can be scary, and some changes are unwelcome, yet change is also something we yearn for in our darkest moments. When you come to therapy, it is a declaration of hope and a plea for change. But meaningful change takes thoughtfulness, time, patience, and grit.

After a job loss there’s a significant change right away in how many people you’re interacting with over the course of a day. And if this seems like an introvert’s paradise, even introverts need social interaction. Community and social interaction afford us several really useful things.

I know a lot of people who feel like they don’t want to waste their therapy hour on work problems. For some people, problems at their job don’t count as “real problems…

No matter who I talk to about the group I run, The Aftermath of Job Loss, everyone wants to know the same thing: why are you running this group?