Learned Helplessness: Are You A Prisoner To Your Thoughts?
🔽🔽🔽 Watch The Video 🔽🔽🔽 Do you ever feel like a prisoner to your own thoughts or circumstances? This week I came across an interesting story. It was about some Red-Tailed Hawks at the Los Angeles Zoo. They had been confiscated from a poacher but remained in captivity. One rebel zookeeper decided to “accidentally” leave…
Read MoreThe Power Of “Fear Conditioning” On Memory
Ever wonder why bad memories seem to affect you more than good ones? This is the power of our Limbic System and “Fear Conditioning.” 🔽🔽🔽 Watch The Video 🔽🔽🔽 The Limbic System Explained When we have an experience where we get anxious, scared, or emotional, we send our limbic system into overdrive. The limbic system is…
Read MoreStruggling With Imposter’s Syndrome?
Do you feel you are undeserving of your successes? I recently sat down with a client whom I hadn’t seen for quite some time. She had moved to a new area and had started a new job after graduating from college. She found herself feeling anxious in the transition. “I feel like my boss is…
Read MoreFriday Five: Kids and Teens
Here’s What We’ve Been Reading To Support Your Family’s Mental Health This Edition: The perils of pushing kids too hard, how Apple plans to help parents dial back phone use (no pun intended!), the parent/child mental health connection, and age-appropriate tips for screen use. As a therapist that specializes in gifted and high-achieving kids, this…
Read MoreFear Of Flying Have You Grounded? 10 Tips For Flying Anxiety
How great is it that we live in a world where we can travel across the country and connect with loved ones or experience the true-blue ocean in the Caribbean simply by hopping on a plane? If you don’t have anxiety about flying, the biggest drawback may be removing your shoes at the airport. But…
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