However it is not required by law that we don’t talk about your suicidal thoughts. If someone has a suicidal part, it wants to protect the person from unbearable suffering and overwhelm. Just because it [the suicidal part] has good intentions, doesn’t mean the method is very effective. But not talking about the feelings might not help either.

There are many modalities that can relieve you from the suffering caused by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD and complicated PTSD. Some techniques are better known than others and EMDR is perhaps the most well known modality for recovery.

Evolving our souls when we survive a tragedy. The first question I like to ask myself when I have an emotion that I am not enjoying, is “what can I do about it?” Or “How can I look at this differently?”

Artists around the world are creating art that expresses their feelings about the invasion of Ukraine; painters, photographers, poets and craftsmen. Politicians wore blue and yellow to the State of The Union Address. Sanctions continue to increase on Russia.

The safest way to change is to do it with as little effort as possible. If you set a goal of completely cleaning your entire house in one weekend, when you haven’t been doing that on the regular, perhaps set a goal of doing slightly more this week than you did last week.

Activating the dive response is another way to help calm your system. You’ve seen movies where someone goes into a bathroom and splashes water on their face. Well, it’s a thing.

From your perspective if you are the one with the diagnosis of BPD, you may feel anxious and worried most of the time imagining the one you love deeply is about to leave you, because you don’t deserve their love, and fear they are cheating on you

how do you heal from this part of yourself that is overwhelmed and feeling like you are all alone?

Buy some of those valentine’s cards that children get for their class mates and mail them to your friends. Make valentine’s hearts and give them to your neighbors or a lonesome person in a retirement home.

Do the things you know how to do to stay healthy and hold Radical Acceptance that this is what is

If you suffer with depression, you might wonder how it is possible that other people don’t experience the same misery. Everyone has some kind of challenge in their life. Yours is to dance with depression. It is not always easy being a human. So, what are you going to do about it?

Are the holidays making you angry? Does your family let you down, not doing what they should do? When your college age child comes home for winter break, do you want him or her to spend more time with you than they do? 

The idea is; if you say it often enough, eventually it will be a fact. If someone believes affirmations work, they are more likely to work. There is a lot of evidence about the placebo effect. I think it is possible that affirmations could help reduce anxiety the same way a placebo works.

The holidays in general can be an extremely difficult time for a lot of people. You are not alone if you white knuckle it through these times. You may feel resentful that other people are obliviously shopping through the season.

If someone were to ask us, “What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever gone through?” we’d all have an answer. While stress is something everyone experiences, trauma is not.

Here’s how you can recognize the cycle of depression and try a few strategies to help break it.

Personality disorders in general are characterized by long-term behavioral and thinking patterns. These patterns disrupt one's ability to relate to others and processes their own emotions.

Anxiety coach Barry McDonagh came up with the DARE method as an easy to remember, step-by-step solution to conquering anxiety in the moment.