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Archives for September 2015

Your Internal GPS-How anxiety can make you lose your way

Your Internal GPS-How anxiety can make you lose your way

Posted on 09.30.15 No Comments

Your internal GPS was designed to help you chase your dreams, anxiety resets your GPS to make you run away from nightmares. Now at any moment in your life you are either chasing a dream or you are running away from a nightmare.  Your brain has just 2 gears, forward and reverse, you are Read More →

Emotional Baggage Transformed to Wisdom

Emotional Baggage Transformed to Wisdom

Posted on 09.23.15 1 Comment

You are walking down your path of life and someone throws a rock and hits you.  You stoop down and pick up the rock.  To prevent them from throwing it at you again you put it in your backpack.  You also find that since the rock is in your backpack you do not have to see it and be reminded Read More →

ANGER MANAGEMENT 101:  Your anger is either coming from your present, your past or your present amplified by your past.

ANGER MANAGEMENT 101: Your anger is either coming from your present, your past or your present amplified by your past.

Posted on 09.15.15 No Comments

  You are standing in line at Starbucks to get your morning coffee and a guy in a blue shirt comes up, cuts in front of you in line and then, for no reason, he stomps on your toe as hard as he can.  All of a sudden your heart rate zooms up from 70 to 140 beats per minute as the Read More →

Stress management 2.0: Simple ways to stop stressing

Stress management 2.0: Simple ways to stop stressing

Posted on 09.08.15 No Comments

Your body and brain were designed to handle short bursts of stress to help you get away from lions and tigers and bears.  Once you are safe your stress response is supposed to go back down to its 0 baseline. When you are chronically stressed and especially when your stress response never Read More →

Vicious Cycles – Science Finally Proves That They Really Do Exist

Vicious Cycles – Science Finally Proves That They Really Do Exist

Posted on 09.01.15 1 Comment

Have you ever started to have what you thought was going to be a normal conversation with someone only to have it escalate into a red hot argument without even trying?  Do you and your spouse (or teenager or boss or sibling) seem to hit each other's buttons so that arguments go from zero Read More →

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