“5–3–2” – Processing Anger in Three Steps

Objectives Anxiety is an unpleasant sensation generated by your body’s physiological response to real or perceived danger. It compels you to take action to resolve the threat and live another day. If you cannot escape or solve the threat, your body’s stress response intensifies and you become angry. Anger is … Read More

Four Aspects of Solving RUTs

Objectives Mental and physical pain are processed in similar regions of the brain. Our inability to escape from RUTs relentlessly drives flight or fight physiology, and people may become ill. There is a healing sequence for solving them: separation of identity, thought diversion, lowering anger, moving into creativity, and dissolving … Read More

“Don’t Worry, Be Happy”

A way into “The Abyss” of chronic illness The title of this song1 is a common way many of us deal with adversity. However, it encompasses both halves of the “ironic effect” and the actual well-documented outcome of this approach to life is more worry and sadness.     What … Read More

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