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Values can play a major role in supporting our well-being and promoting our resilience. What comes to mind when you ask yourself about your personal values? It is not uncommon for people to struggle when asked to identify values. However, taking time to identify and think through our core values can have a significant impact
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“Where your fear is, there is your task.” -C.G. Jung Fear is often viewed as a signal for danger. However, our actual appraisal of a fearful situation or circumstance can range widely depending on the context, our personal history, and our appraisal of both what is feared and what our fear is telling us. On
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Acceptance has become an increasingly important concept for building resilience and maintaining mental wellness. Although it has a long history in spiritual practices, acceptance has more recently become a cornerstone for mindfulness practice as well as therapy approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Acceptance involves recognizing a process or condition without attempting to
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“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”― Sigmund Freud Defense mechanisms or psychological defenses involve a process of pushing away and avoiding thoughts or feelings that are too painful or morally unacceptable to us. Freud began writing about defenses in an early work, Studies on Hysteria (1895), where he described a mental process that translates to
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“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung Self-awareness involves the ability to be conscious of a range of experiences, including our emotions, thoughts, motivations, and behaviors. Our degree of self-awareness and the capacity to engage in self-reflection can have a significant impact
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Beginner’s mind is a useful way to practice changing our relationship to uncertainty. It involves letting go of our expectations and preconceived ideas about something and looking at things with a fresh mind, just like a beginner. This can be a difficult practice. Nevertheless, if we can learn to tolerate and accept uncertainty, we can
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The English poet John Keats first used the term negative capacity in a letter, where he used the term to describe the abilities of great writers. Keats writes, “several things dovetailed in my mind, and at once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare
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Do you ever find yourself asking, “Why am I doing this?” How do you answer when someone asks if you had a good day? Do you find yourself reviewing the tasks you accomplished? If so, you are certainly not alone. Our society is hell-bent on productivity as the highest virtue; a sentiment that is reflected
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Our inner landscape is complex. If you slow down and watch, you might notice that we are constantly telling ourselves stories. Our mind generates stories that can protect us by registering threats and danger by categorizing and developing schemas or scripts to simplify the complex world around us. However, our minds also give us richness
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Wise mind is a concept and practice that allows for us to acknowledge and sort through challenges and distress with the goal of arriving at a balanced response. It is also the place where our emotional mind and our rational mind overlap. Typically attributed to Dialectical Behavior Therapy, the notion of wise mind has a rich history connected to ideas
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