Sometimes life isn’t fair. How we think about setbacks in life can effect the way we handle stress. Changing unhealthy thoughts can improve how we deal with stress and setbacks. This video by Amy Morin, LCSW explains how to be mentally strong by changing thought patterns. Morin is a licensed clinical social work that has written the bestselling […]
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Half Empty -or- Why We Focus On What Doesn’t Work Everything keeps on breaking! Nothing works likes it’s supposed to. I spoke with one angry and exasperated soul who was having trouble controlling his temper. I observed that our attention is drawn to that which does not work. We never notice when we get in our
I was brought to thinking about expectations after I was on a flight back home from a quick trip to California for a funeral. End of life always brings a certain amount of self-reflection about one’s place in life and what may (or may not) lie ahead. In the plane on the way home, one
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“I’m going to help you paint that barn,” my dad said. I was living on a turn of the century farm house with a sizeable barn that was in desperate need of a paint job. “I don’t want to paint that barn,” was my honest reply. I had enough on my plate with work and
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