Tag: Exposure Therapy
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QOTD #21: The Face of Fear
In these areas where our amigdala is over-riding our neo-cortex, we need to be self-aware and practice exposure therapy. We need to gradually face our fears until they become less scary. Preferably, not kicking ans screaming but voluntarily. This is the cure.
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Emotional Alchemy: 3 Simple Techniques to Convert Toxic Emotions, Pain, and Trauma into Creative Offerings
In 2 previous posts (HERE and HERE), I shared quotes that testify to what has been true for me, personally. Our mess can be our message, and the pain we can’t get rid of can become our creative offerings to others. In this post, I want to talk about 3 techniques that have helped me…
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Inversion Thinking (Part 3): Why Goal Setting is Incomplete and How to Fix It
Here in part 3 of our series on inversion thinking, I will be sharing a cool goal setting technique that fixes many of the limitations with traditional goal setting and helps us face our fears in the process. I first heard about this technique from a TedTalk presented by Tim Ferriss from 2017.
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Inversion Thinking (Part 1): When Positive Thinking Isn’t Enough… Do This Instead!
Here in America, it’s easy to get caught up in the malaise of pop-culture psychology that inundates us with catchy cliche’s and “postitive vibe” mysticism in place of the deep therapy many of us need. In our culture, it’s common to over-simplify complex issues. Especially, the ones related to our mental health, and it makes…
Daniel Fortune 