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For people who have a difficult relationship with food and/or their bodies, Thanksgiving can be a miserable nightmare of a holiday. It is a day

An Overview: Life in Four Easy Steps
My blog is intended to be a bit of a How-To in living a meaningful and easier life. It addresses topics such as managing painful

Strategies for Intentional Days: The Mason Jar Challenge
Imagine a mason jar. The jar represents your day today. Next to it are a pile of big rocks, a pile of pebbles, and a

The Code: Cracked
We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved.

Choosing Focus to Impact Your Experience
In Don’t Believe Everything You Think, I talk about the idea that although you can’t control which thoughts enter your mind, you can choose which

Stay Out of Other People’s Heads!
Some of us spend A LOT of time in other people’s heads, trying to figure out what the other person “really” thinks of us. Do

A Word about Worrying: Preparation
Worry: to allow one’s mind to dwell on potential future difficulty or troubles (i.e., pain). There are many ways to worry and many kinds of

Self-Acceptance: Getting Past the Troll
Self-acceptance is HARD. As a therapist and a human, I can whole-heartedly attest to this. It is a journey that can take people decades to

Me, My Observer-Self, and I
I picture my observer-self as somewhere around eight inches diagonally up from my right ear. My observer-self is the part of me that notices what
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