Depression, anxiety, trauma, and substance use also increase irritability and anger and unfortunately anger is a pretty tricky emotion. One of the trickiest things about it is that it’s a secondary emotion – meaning it only comes out in response to other...
This is a continuation of our last post What To Do When We Don’t Want To Forgive (Part 1). A quick review of the context of this post: Sometimes our depression or anxiety has a lot to do with something someone else did to us. In those cases, I would say...
Piggybacking on our most recent post about The Simple(ish) Secret to Feeling Good. I wanted to introduce a tool that can help get you to the depths of your deep dark places that really continue to drive your feelings of depression and anxiety (whether clinical...
Sometimes our depression or anxiety has a lot to do with something someone else did to us. In those cases, I would say America’s cultural guidance is not so great. We sort of use the term “forgiveness” as a catch all for what is a really a multi-step...
Many times people want to know how to feel less sad or depressed than they do. Millions (billions?) are spent on various solutions to getting us there. If we do enough yoga. If we have the perfect meditation practice. If we add even more exercise (or just the right...
