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4 Quick Fixes to Interrupt an Emotional Spiral

4 Quick Fixes to Interrupt an Emotional Spiral

When you’ve been triggered and your emotion passengers are trying to hijack your mind-body vehicle, it can feel like your loosing control! You get pulled into a full cascade of psycho-physiological reactivity. Breathing gets shallow, muscles tense, and we can’t think...

Is The Digital Age Fueling Toxic Reassurance Seeking?

Is The Digital Age Fueling Toxic Reassurance Seeking?

We all need a little reassurance sometimes. Someone to tell us we’re on track, doing great, or just confirm that we don’t have food in our teeth! But could this normal behavior be becoming more problematic in the digital age? Has Internet, smartphone, and social media...

Is FOTU Fueling Millennial Anxiety (and Depression)?

Is FOTU Fueling Millennial Anxiety (and Depression)?

Feelings of uncertainty and doubt come part and parcel with building a life you love. Yet it’s so easy to get hijacked by the anxiety and worry, when we don’t know for sure.

We can get paralyzed by the F.O.T.U. Fear Of The Unknown!

Body Positivity in a Sea of Skinny

Body Positivity in a Sea of Skinny

Body Positivity in a Sea of Skinny Looking out from the eyes of a young girl, everyone was thin and beautiful. It was a ‘sea of skinny,’ for young Jodi Guber Brufsky growing up in the limelight of her powerful father. A uniquely challenging environment for a little...

Do Your Outsides Match Your Insides? Ask Your Wise Mind.

Do Your Outsides Match Your Insides? Ask Your Wise Mind.

We all have private internal experiences (emotions, thoughts, bodily sensations, and impulses), which we keep to ourselves, only sharing to a certain few. Having appropriate boundaries like this is healthy and necessary for effectively negotiating the world. But some...

VALIDATION: The Relational Skill that Softens Defenses.

VALIDATION: The Relational Skill that Softens Defenses.

Ever found yourself caught in a difficult dialogue with someone (maybe even with yourself), where emotions were escalating, and reasoning not helping? It can feel like a futile battle as you try everything to stomp out the flickering flames of emotion before a brush...

Coping Ahead For the Holidays: 3 Skills Videos

Coping Ahead For the Holidays: 3 Skills Videos

The holidays are a massive breeding ground for triggers and autopilot reactivity! AND - also an opportunity to practice your skills! Are you ready? Are you skilled up to get through drama free this year? Well, I've got ya covered with some simple practices for...

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