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The Marathon Story. Let’s start with a scenario. You’ve had the goal to run a marathon for a few months now. You’ve been training each day, slowly improving. On the day of the race you’re feeling pretty good! You get there, line up and start running. The first mile goes […]

Stop Negative Thoughts: Treat Yourself Like A Friend

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What Thought Spiraling Looks Like. A series of spiraling thoughts like this might be familiar to a lot of you: I’m going to fail this test. When I fail the test, I’ll fail the class. When I fail the class, I’ll have to drop out of school. After I drop out […]

Stop Negative Thoughts: Block Thought Spiraling

Let’s Start With A Story I want to illustrate this stress management concept with a story. Visiting a friend in another city, we decided to go out hiking with on a cold winter day. We thought it would be fun to go off trail, so we wandered off into the […]

Stress Management: Replace Anxiety With A Plan

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What’s your biggest goal? What’s the nagging idea you’ve wanted to try but keep putting off? There can be a wide assortment of reasons holding you back, but perhaps one of them is that your goal is too big or too vague for you to know where to start. In […]

Goal Setting: Break It Down

I’m Issuing A Challenge. I want you to walk from one end of the country to the other end of the country. When your read this sentence what was your first reaction? Many of us would immediately jump to ‘I can’t walk across the country because….‘ . When you think […]

Problem Solving Mindset – ‘I Can’t’ vs. ‘How Can I?’

Book Review: Quiet By Susan Cain Best for: People who are introverted and hope to learn more about introversion. Also, those who have a general interest in personality psychology. The book is written heavily in favor of and to introverts, however, extroverts who wish to better understand introverts may gain […]

Book Review: Quiet By Susan Cain