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The Impact and Treatment of Social Isolation Schema
This post explores Social Isolation schema, one of the five Disconnection/Rejection domain schemas identified in Schema Therapy. Examples of possible formation, impact, and treatment are provided to help provide steps for healing.
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The Entitlement Spectrum: The Importance of Knowing Where You Fall
This post explores the Entitlement spectrum, exploring narcissistic characteristics (Entitlement schema) and Self-Sacrificing characteristics (Self-Sacrifice schema). This post provides insight into the negative impact of both schemas on relationship functioning and mental health symptoms such as depression and anxiety.
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Combat Dread and Anxiety by Combatting Vulnerability to Harm Schema
This post explores Vulnerability to Harm schema, which often plays an integral role in provoking feelings of anxiety and dread in clients with chronic experiences of anxiety. This post provides techniques for retraining the amygdala and overcoming irrational thoughts that provoke and maintain chronic anxiety.
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Putting the Pieces Together: ACTing to Embrace the Life You Have
This post explores Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT Therapy, and how expectations and disappointments can keep us trapped in negative cycles and prevent us from embracing the life we have.
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Solution Focus: Letting the Exception Rule
This post explores Solution Focused Therapy and how to look for a solution by looking at the exceptions to a problem, or by focusing on when the problem does not occur.
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Caveman No More: Surviving Modern Day Anxiety
This post explores the origins of the concept of anxiety and how it may be experienced in modern times. This post includes 5 techniques to practice to lessen and control anxious symptoms.
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The Youth of a Nation: Sold to the Highest Bidder
This post explores problematic screen usage (PSU) and screen addiction in children and adolescents. This post also provides tips to parents for limiting screen usage by their children. This post interacts with content from the documentary The Social Dilemma and concerns about internet marketing strategies.
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Pieces of the Past: How Unprocessed Trauma Leads to Dissociation
This post explores dissociation in relation to previous traumatic experiences and provides theory for reintegrating parts of an individual’s experience in order for healing to occur.
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The Starting Lineup: Addiction and Change
This post explores the concept of neuroplasticity and how neuroscience impacts additive behaviors. This post offers tips for overcoming addiction by creating new and stronger neuropathways and discontinuing usage of problematic addictive pathways.
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Needing in a Time of Uncertainty
This post explores the challenges of coping with COVID or other situations which have a high level of uncertainty. Post encourages individuals to explore their feelings and needs and practice naming them. Additionally, this post questions the American value of self-sufficiency and whether that is helping individuals to ask for help or get their needs…