In one of his workshops on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Daniel Moran says that an important part of treating depression is “behavior activation.”
Words are important. Words matter. Somewhere along the way, you were taught the phrase, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” While this childhood phrase can be a defense against verbal bullying and name-calling, they carry a great irony.
Sleep is one of the places in life where you can experience stress. Sleep stress can happen at any point in your life, but it is not unusual for it to show up during the holidays.
Perhaps the title to this blog sounds a bit strange to you. It would make more sense to you if I was talking about how to stop being depressed or how to stop feeling depressed. That is the way we normally think about depression.
When I am working with people who struggle with anger, often in our sessions, I invite them to bring into their awareness a recent situation where they felt angry.
A common symptom of trauma is the presence of flashbacks or other intrusive thoughts and feelings. Flashbacks happen when personal experiences of the past show up suddenly in your awareness with any conscious effort to bring them to mind.
