This is a very easy and quick exercise. What’s awesome about it is that it’s experiential. It requires you to physically experience something rather than attempting to learn only on an intellectual/logical level. Experiential learning is a far more powerful way to change your relationship with your private experiences (your thoughts, memories, sensations, evaluations, emotions) [...]

Some days, everything is going well and I think I’m a great psychologist. Some days I think I am indeed awesome, lol. But, there are moments when it pops into my head that “I’m useless”. I’m sharing this example to show how you can use two different approaches for dealing with these types of thoughts. [...]

Sometimes when people use avoidant coping it’s for the purposes of avoiding heavy duty emotions, however it’s also very common for people to use avoidant coping to avoid milder emotions like awkwardness. I very frequently see people choosing not to enact their personal values to avoid feeling temporarily awkward. The DIY Psychological Challenge for this [...]