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EMOTIVE JOURNALING ™ – How to journal away emotional baggage

EMOTIVE JOURNALING ™ – How to journal away emotional baggage

Posted on 05.26.17 No Comments

Want to get rid of emotional baggage? Emotive Journaling ™ is self-therapy to get rid of emotional baggage from a difficult childhood, past relationships, bad work experiences or just stressful times. A NATURAL WAY TO HEAL EMOTIONALLY   Imagine this. Your 1st grader comes to you all Read More →

How to really recover from trauma and stress

How to really recover from trauma and stress

Posted on 01.24.17 No Comments

Trying to put painful or traumatic memories out of your mind only stores them in a different part of your brain allowing them to resurface later. Have you ever tried to put one of your angry, sad, scary, embarrassing, shameful, rejected or stressful memories  'out of your mind' only to Read More →

PTSD without TRAUMA – How Common Stresses Can Give You PTSD

PTSD without TRAUMA – How Common Stresses Can Give You PTSD

Posted on 01.17.17 No Comments

SCRATCHES IN YOUR TEFLON - Stressful events that aren't traumas by themselves can add up and give you posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Stressful events  - like a divorce or breakup, getting fired, financial or legal problems, sexual harassment, having a miscarriage, having a serious Read More →

ANGER MANAGEMENT 201: Do You Blurt, Block or Channel Your Anger

ANGER MANAGEMENT 201: Do You Blurt, Block or Channel Your Anger

Posted on 11.29.16 No Comments

Blurting your anger hurts others. Blocking your anger hurts you. Channeling your anger is the only permanent solution to anger management. There are three basic ways that you can express anger.  Young children blurt out their anger, they express it in a raw physical form such as Read More →

ACHIEVEMENT = Backbone – Emotional Baggage

ACHIEVEMENT = Backbone – Emotional Baggage

Posted on 10.11.16 No Comments

How much you achieve in life is pretty much determined by how much emotional baggage you carry and how strong of a backbone you have developed. Everybody has emotional baggage, emotionally difficult experiences that have not fully healed. Emotional baggage is like a a bunch of rocks that Read More →

How The Vietnamese Made PTSD Disappear – Not

How The Vietnamese Made PTSD Disappear – Not

Posted on 08.09.16 No Comments

The Vietnamese tried to make PTSD go away by systematically forgetting the past, while this is a good short term strategy its a terrible long term solution. In 1994 a group of American psychologists and psychiatrists visited Vietnam to see how they dealt with post traumatic stress Read More →

7 REASONS TO GET RID OF YOUR PTSD FOR GOOD

7 REASONS TO GET RID OF YOUR PTSD FOR GOOD

Posted on 04.20.16 No Comments

When you have a physical wound you do whatever-it-takes to get it to fully heal. Its just as important for you to do whatever-it-takes to get your PTSD wound to fully heal. PTSD doubles your risk of multiple sclerosis, shrinks part of your brain and sabotages your career - but with some Read More →

MARITAL TIME-OUTS: 7-steps to better communication skills

MARITAL TIME-OUTS: 7-steps to better communication skills

Posted on 03.08.16 2 Comments

Vicious Circle Arguments? Explosive Disagreements? Here is a simple 7-step program to help you break bad habits & build better communication skills. The marital time-out program is designed to help couples who frequently fall into vicious-circle, explosive or nonproductive Read More →

Social Anxiety – My public speaking anxiety story

Social Anxiety – My public speaking anxiety story

Posted on 02.25.16 No Comments

Social anxiety may seem to come out blue but there is always a root, it just may be something that you have hidden in the back of your mind.  Here is how my public speaking anxiety seemed to come out of the blue. All through college and graduate school I had no problem speaking in Read More →

Premenstrual women develop 4 X more traumatic memories

Premenstrual women develop 4 X more traumatic memories

Posted on 02.02.16 No Comments

  Women are 4 times more likely to develop a traumatic memory of a car accident than if they have the exact same accident 2 weeks later. This is because your brain doesn't care if something is listed in some book as a trauma or not. As far as your brain is concerned, the only Read More →

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