Beware of Your Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Beware of Your Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

It may be negatively impacting your behaviors toward yourself and others. Key points: A self-fulfilling prophecy is a set of beliefs and expectations that can negatively or positively influence our actions. Research on self-fulfilling prophecies such as the Pygmalion...
A Letter to Your Anxious Mind

A Letter to Your Anxious Mind

For the mind that overthinks, worries, catastrophizes, races, and/or ruminates. Dear Mind, While you are a vital organ that helps me in fundamental ways, I realize that I have a divisive relationship with you. I am hoping to improve the relationship, as I realize that...
How to Tame Your Anxious Mind

How to Tame Your Anxious Mind

Gaining self-awareness during overwhelming, chaotic, and uncertain times During times like these when things are so chaotic, uncertain, and anxiety-provoking, our minds can seem overwhelmed and unwieldy. As hard as we may try to avoid, distract, or ignore...
Halloween Is Breeding Anxiety for Kids and Teens Socially

Halloween Is Breeding Anxiety for Kids and Teens Socially

During Covid, there has been a rise in teen anxiety. Since March teens report being physically isolated from their friends. Even with hybrid models of education teens can still feel the isolation. In my practice, teens complain to me that even though they are...