The Best Communication Technique

    If I only had five minutes to change someone’s life, I would give them this DEARMAN tool.  A DEARMAN is a communication tool from dialectical behavior therapy which was designed by Marsha Linehan.1 It is a tool that helps us to connect and...

Changing Our Relationship to our Thoughts and Feelings

  Our thoughts have a powerful influence on our emotions and actions. For some, the connection between thoughts and feelings gets lost in the blur of daily tasks and routines. When living life on automatic drive, connection can be lost to our inner world and the...

Emotion Regulation for “Spirited Adults”

  The classic book “Raising Your Spirited Child” was written twenty-seven years ago by Mary Sheedy Kurchinka, to provide hope and guidance to parents of children who are more intense, persistent, sensitive, perceptive and energetic than the...

Emotion Regulation for “Spirited Adults”

  The classic book “Raising Your Spirited Child” was written twenty-seven years ago by Mary Sheedy Kurchinka, to provide hope and guidance to parents of children who are more intense, persistent, sensitive, perceptive and energetic than the...

Changing Our Relationship to our Thoughts and Feelings

  Our thoughts have a powerful influence on our emotions and actions. For some, the connection between thoughts and feelings gets lost in the blur of daily tasks and routines. When living life on automatic drive, connection can be lost to our inner world and the...