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Episode 248: Getting Personal Responding to My Own Journal Prompts

Hello, everyone! In this episode, I sit down and have a go at my own journal prompts from the 100 Free Journal Prompts on my website. Some of my responses are entertaining and straight forward… others get pretty personal. Hope you enjoy! As always,…

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Episode 247: Health Anxiety During a Pandemic & Suicidality in Children

Hello, friends! Got another Q&A episode for you. The 2nd question in here could be potentially triggering to some, so please be aware of that. It doesn’t go into anything explicit, but the topic is something that some may be sensitive to. Here’s…

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You Aren’t Dying. It’s Just Anxiety.

PICTURE THIS… You are lying down to go to sleep. Things are progressing well. You close your eyes and take a few deep breaths. You try to think of happy things instead of the stressful things that you need to take care of tomorrow. After a few minutes, you’re just about to slip off into…

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This Gif Can Stop Your Anxiety Part 2

I have done a post like this before, but that was based on an animated gif that someone else made. This time, I commissioned someone to make an animation out of my personal favorite breathing exercise to help stop your anxiety. It’s called 4-7-8 breathing and it goes like this… I write about this exercise in my book as a…

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How to Explain Depression: A Letter

In my first book, I wrote a letter from the point of view of someone dealing with anxiety. The idea was that you could take that letter verbatim or use it as inspiration to help those people in your life that just don’t “get it” to better understand what it is that you are dealing with….

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10 Obscure Emotions

Sometimes a psychotherapy session is really just a collaborative quest to find the right word to demonstrate to your client that you have heard them and know exactly what they mean. If only there was an exact word to describe feeling the feeling of being alone in a crowd or the sense of peace that comes from being inside…

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This GIF Can Stop Your Anxiety

I’m so glad you’re here! Since this post, I’ve actually added another guided relaxation with a gif that I had commissioned just for Duff the Psych. You can see that post here! Breathe along to this. Nice and slow. Breath comes in, breath goes out.

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