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Instinct Stacking and Scoring

By On July 20, 2022 · In Feel Better

The Self-Preservation Instinct

By On July 20, 2022 · In Feel Better

Thank You Friends

By On July 9, 2022 · In Feel Better

What Has Personality Got To Do With Psychotherapy?

By On June 23, 2022 · In Feel Better

How The Jungian Idea of Anima and Animus Complexes Helps Us Understand Conflict In Our Relationships

By On February 11, 2022 · In Feel Better

What Does It Mean To Be Khmer, Anyway?

By On January 19, 2022 · In Feel Better

The Magician (i): It Is Sad, But It Is What It Is

By On January 8, 2022 · In Feel Better

Jean-Paul Sartre Tries To Give Up Smoking

By On December 30, 2021 · In Feel Better

Using Tarot To Address The Burning Questions Of Our Lives

By On September 19, 2021 · In Feel Better

I Have Eaten Up The World And I Need Not Think About It Anymore

By On August 22, 2021 · In Feel Better

Self Stands Beyond Mind

By On August 22, 2021 · In Feel Better

What Is Born Must Die

By On August 22, 2021 · In Feel Better

A Thing As As It Is, Because The Universe Is As It Is

By On August 22, 2021 · In Feel Better

Mind Creates The Abyss, The Heart Crosses It: Being Present

By On August 21, 2021 · In Feel Better

The Obsession With Being Someone 

By On August 20, 2021 · In Feel Better

The Sense of ‘I am’: Consciousness

By On August 19, 2021 · In Feel Better

Life Answers: A Complete Audiobook Reading of Sri Nisargadatta Maharajah’s “I Am That”

By On August 18, 2021 · In Feel Better

Enjoy The Journey – The Importance of Savouring (And How To Enhance It)

By On June 29, 2021 · In Feel Better

Amor Fati

By On June 20, 2021 · In Feel Better

To Love Life, To Love It (Even When You Have No Stomach For It)

By On June 15, 2021 · In Feel Better

Setbacks

By On May 26, 2021 · In Feel Better

Trauma

By On May 16, 2021 · In Feel Better, wise blood

Love Is A Losing Game

By On March 13, 2021 · In Feel Better

What’s Your Thread?

By On March 11, 2021 · In Feel Better

Friendship As A Template For All Relationships?

By On March 10, 2021 · In Feel Better

NOTES FROM SLINGERLAND’S “DRUNK” (2021)

By On January 11, 2021 · In Feel Better

My SPLGE-R sign off (explained)

By On December 12, 2020 · In Feel Better

Today is full of things, so many…

By On September 14, 2020 · In Feel Better

State/Mood Tracking using the ANS Gearbox or the Autonomic Ladder

By On August 10, 2020 · In Feel Better

STC MAP EXAMPLE

By On August 3, 2020 · In Feel Better

The STER That Emerges In 3rd and 4th Gear

By On July 31, 2020 · In Feel Better

The Importance of Your Vagus Nerve for Health and Well-Being + 10 Ways To Activate It

By On July 16, 2020 · In Feel Better

How Our Autonomic Nervous Systems Pull Us Out of Connection and Into Protection

By On July 12, 2020 · In ANS, Consolidations, Feel Better, Polyvagal theory

Am I Wasting My Life? Are You Wasting Your Life? (James Wright’s Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota)

By On June 11, 2020 · In Feel Better

What Kind of Commitment Do I Need to Make to Therapy?

By On June 7, 2020 · In Feel Better

The Singing by Kim Addonizio

By On May 31, 2020 · In Feel Better

Psychological Flexibility for Well-Being and Happiness

By On May 30, 2020 · In Feel Better

The Journey by Mary Oliver

By On May 23, 2020 · In Feel Better

Every Day Something More Important Calls For My Attention (Marie Howe’s Prayer)

By On May 21, 2020 · In Feel Better

PREPPING FOR THE LIFE MOT: THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF VALUE

By On May 19, 2020 · In Feel Better

What Else Can You Do Now But Reach For A Berry? (Chio Nakamura’s Wild Strawberries)

By On April 30, 2020 · In Feel Better

The Joys & Delights of Being Nobody & Everybody: Caedmon’s Hymn

By On April 5, 2020 · In Feel Better

The Fire That Can Make Nothing of Itself

By On March 23, 2020 · In Feel Better

Mary Ruefle’s Sadness

By On March 23, 2020 · In Feel Better

The Warehouse by Mark Waldron

By On March 6, 2020 · In Feel Better

When Death Comes by Mary Oliver

By On March 3, 2020 · In Feel Better

The Inner Thorn Allegory

By On March 2, 2020 · In Feel Better

Poetry Koan?

By On February 17, 2020 · In Feel Better

My Koans

By On February 17, 2020 · In Feel Better

Conceptualised Selves

By On October 25, 2019 · In Acceptance, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, Feel Better

The Dream by Julian Barnes

By On October 11, 2019 · In Feel Better

On Living Intensely (via DH Lawrence’s Song of A Man Who Has Come Through)

By On September 25, 2019 · In Coping strategies, Feel Better, Intensity, Meaning, Mystery, Overexcitability, Poetry Koan, Poetry Koan (By Heart), Refuge, Revelation, Spell of The Sensuous, Waste and welter

Finding Meaning in An Absurd World

By On September 25, 2019 · In Existential knots, Feel Better, Meaning

Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine by D.H. Lawrence

By On September 18, 2019 · In Feel Better

The Three Characteristics/Marks/Seals of Existence: A Practice

By On September 3, 2019 · In Acceptance, Avoidance, contingency, Coping strategies, Feel Better, Impermanence, Meaning, Suffering, Transcendence, Worry

This-Too-Shall-Pass Poems

By On August 29, 2019 · In Feel Better, Impermanence

This Too Shall Pass?

By On August 29, 2019 · In Buddhism, Coping strategies, Defusion, Emotion Regulation, Existential knots, Feel Better, Impermanence, Mindfulness, Obsessive thinking, worry, Worry

Poetry Koan #9: The Bright Field by R.S. Thomas

By On July 7, 2019 · In Feel Better, Maslow, Poetry Koan, Poetry Koan (By Heart)

Counting Happiness: How Much Should We Trust Our Feelings?

By On July 3, 2019 · In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, Feel Better, Happiness

The Feast of Pain byTim Kreider

By On June 15, 2019 · In Feel Better

Poetry Koan #7: What is the Language Using Us For? by W.S. Graham

By On June 14, 2019 · In Feel Better, Poetry Koan, Poetry Koan (By Heart)

Poetry Koan #5: The Many Wines by Rumi

By On May 30, 2019 · In Feel Better, Poetry Koan, Poetry Koan (By Heart)

Poetry Koan #3: Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour by Wallace Stevens

By On May 19, 2019 · In Feel Better, Poetry Koan, Poetry Koan (By Heart)

#AcceptancePoems & Poetry

By On May 19, 2019 · In Feel Better

Poetry Koan #1: Death Whispers In My Ear

By On May 2, 2019 · In Feel Better, Poetry Koan, Poetry Koan (By Heart)

By On April 19, 2019 · In Feel Better

Feeling Crap 3: Three Ways out Your Suffering Mind

By On April 13, 2019 · In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, Anxiety, Coping strategies, Feel Better, Living A Valued Life, Meaning, Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, Transcendence, Values, Worry

Feeling Crap 2: The Three Layers of Your Suffering Mind

By On April 13, 2019 · In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, Anxiety, Coping strategies, Feel Better, Living A Valued Life, Meaning, Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, Transcendence, Values, Worry

Feeling Crap? A Brief Introduction to Your Suffering Mind

By On April 10, 2019 · In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, Anxiety, Coping strategies, Feel Better, Living A Valued Life, Meaning, Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, Transcendence, Values, Worry

April Fools?

By On March 30, 2019 · In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Anxiety, By Heart, Defusion, Depression, Feel Better, Living A Valued Life, Patience, Refuge, Ritual, Self-care, Self-compassion, Strategies and tools, Suffering, Worry

DE-FUSING: 5 Methods That Can Help You Unhook from Your Not-Good-Enough Script (Or ANY Painful Mind Script For That Matter!)

By On March 21, 2019 · In Feel Better

The Stoic Fork

By On March 3, 2019 · In Acceptance, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Anxiety, Avoidance, Control, Coping strategies, DBT, Emotion Regulation, Feel Better, Living A Valued Life, Strategies and tools, Thought Suppression, Transcendence, Worry

PAIN + LANGUAGE = SUFFERING?

By On January 28, 2019 · In Coping strategies, Depression, Experiential avoidance, Feel Better, Obsessive thinking, Thought Suppression

PAUSING FOR PAIN (BUT NOT FOR SUFFERING)

By On January 21, 2019 · In 100, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, Defusion, Feel Better, Pain, Suffering, worry

Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

By On January 9, 2019 · In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Avoidance, Feel Better, Living A Valued Life, Pain, Suffering

Feel Better

By On December 31, 2018 · In Emotion Regulation, Feel Better

Clean House & Mind vs. Dirty (?) Cults (NXIVM & Freud)

By On December 29, 2018 · In Buddhism, Cognitive Distortions, Cults, Feel Better, Freud, Housework

Flow

By On December 27, 2018 · In Feel Better, Flow

The serenity to accept? The serenity?!?

By On December 26, 2018 · In Acceptance, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, Core Needs, Feel Better, Guided Practice

The Borderline-Narcissistic Lindy Hop

By On December 9, 2018 · In Feel Better, Relationships

Charle’s Simic’s MYSTICS: a prescription for the blahs?

By On April 27, 2018 · In Feel Better, Poetry Koan

What’s your thread?

By On April 18, 2018 · In Feel Better

Meeting Cravings with Kindness

By On March 24, 2018 · In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Addiction, Feel Better, Living A Valued Life, Strategies and tools

Putting your house in order

By On January 15, 2018 · In Feel Better

By hearting MY OWN HEART by Gerard Manley Hopkins

By On October 21, 2017 · In By Heart, De Profundis, Feel Better, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poetry Koan, Self-care, Self-compassion

Experiential Processing in Therapy: some thoughts, and a few examples

By On March 27, 2017 · In Feel Better

Procrastination

By On November 1, 2016 · In Feel Better, Nature, Procrastination, Things My Garden Has Taught Me

Patience

By On October 23, 2016 · In Feel Better, Frustration, Nature, Patience, Poetry Koan, Things My Garden Has Taught Me

Late-Bloomers

By On October 11, 2016 · In Feel Better, Generativity, Nature, Success, Things My Garden Has Taught Me

The Constant (Caring) Gardener

By On October 2, 2016 · In Feel Better, Max, Nature, Self-care, Things My Garden Has Taught Me

Garden companions: Monty Dog vs. Maxi-Max. What’s in a name?

By On September 24, 2016 · In Feel Better, Max, Nature, Things My Garden Has Taught Me

Green unseen

By On September 15, 2016 · In Boredom, Feel Better, Hedonic Adaptation, Mindfulness, Mood, Nature, Things My Garden Has Taught Me

(Lettuce) Anxiety

By On August 13, 2016 · In Anxiety, Feel Better, Freud, Nature, Things My Garden Has Taught Me

The Paradox of Choice

By On August 6, 2016 · In Evolutionary Psychology, Feel Better, Maximizers and Satisficers, Nature, The Paradox of Choice, Things My Garden Has Taught Me

Understanding Anxiety – two pathways in the brain

By On March 23, 2016 · In Feel Better

Kim Rosen recites me Something She Loves

By On March 15, 2016 · In Feel Better

By Hearting Wild Geese by Mary

By On January 2, 2016 · In Feel Better

And like this insubstantial pageant faded…

By On September 24, 2015 · In Feel Better

“this fruition of boredom/the equation of us”

By On September 17, 2015 · In Feel Better

Life-goals & Yearning

By On May 10, 2015 · In Feel Better