Taking Responsibility for Your Emotional Reactions

Your Hot Buttons A favorite expression of mine is “Your family can press your hot buttons better than anyone else because they created them.” You developed many of your emotional sensitivities during your formative years. And you have inadvertently strengthened those sensitivities every time you’ve reacted to your hot button issues. In this way, certain… Read More Taking Responsibility for Your Emotional Reactions

Why?

“Why?” is the most useless question in the universe. The only question with any meaning is “What?” Asking “Why is this happening?” can only disempower you. Asking “What do I want to make of this?”does exactly the opposite.

23 Things Successful People Do Before Turning 40

Successful people think differently. They also act differently. They embody specific methods and principles to the way they govern their lives that allow them to succeed early on in life. Don’t get me wrong, they also fail. But they know how to gather their mental, physical, emotional and spiritual faculties to allow them to succeed over… Read More 23 Things Successful People Do Before Turning 40

I DON’T NEED A THERAPIST

Are you the adult survivor of emotional child abuse? The effects of childhood abuse on adults are… Post-traumatic stress disorder Cognitive distortions (e.g., “highly fearful and overestimate danger and adversity in your current environment”) Emotional distress (e.g., depression, anxiety, and anger) Anxiety, disorders, panic disorders, phobias, and obsessive-compulsive order Chronic irritability, rage, and difficulties expressing anger constructively… Read More I DON’T NEED A THERAPIST