Therapy in a Nutshell

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Morning Anxiety? It Might Be Cortisol Awakening Response
March 08, 2022

If you go to bed worrying about your day, your body’s like, “Hey, let me help you out. I’m going to give you a dump truck load of cortisol the minute you wake up, doesn’t that sound great?” Then you m

How Self-Diagnosis Can Harm You
February 02, 2022

The internet is really cool. You can learn all about psychology and mental health diagnoses, but you aren’t learning it in any order, which means that you aren’t getting the first lecture in every psy

How to Stop the Shame Spiral
January 29, 2022

When you make a mistake you have two choices. Knowing the difference between shame and guilt can change your life. Let’s say you hurt someone you really care about. Guilt says “What I did was wrong. I

How to Stop Panic Attacks 3/3
January 27, 2022

Okay, in the last two videos we talked about the difference between an anxiety attack and a panic attack, and how you can get stuck in a cycle of having panic attacks. In this video we’ll talk about h

The Panic Attack Cycle 2/3 How to Stop Panic Attacks
January 07, 2022

In this video you’re going to learn how to stop having panic attacks. You’ll learn what you’re doing that makes them come back. You’ll learn the difference between a trigger and the real cause of pani

What’s the Difference Between Panic Attacks, Anxiety Attacks, and Panic Disorder? 1/3 Panic Attacks
January 03, 2022

What’s the difference between an anxiety attack, a panic attack, and panic disorder? This is important because people sometimes use these terms interchangeably, they both have a lot of overlapping sym

Is This Why You’re Depressed? Stop Should-ing on Yourself
December 31, 2021

Here's one way you make your depression worse: should-ing on yourself. A should statement is a cognitive distortion. It’s based on an overly rigid rule inside your head that you aren’t able to live up

How to Release Trauma From Your Body
December 13, 2021

Trauma is very common. But despite how common it is, trauma treatment is complicated, and complex trauma, stemming from years of abuse, really impacts the brain in long-lasting ways. So I’m not going

30/30 What‘s the Core Issue? How to Actually Change
November 26, 2021

Buy the full, ad-free Emotion Processing course now for only $67 https://courses.therapynutshell.com/p/emotion-processing?utm_medium=YTDescription&utm_source=YouTube Just “stopping it” often doesn’t w

29/30 Self-Compassion as the Source of Change
November 24, 2021

Buy the full, ad-free Emotion Processing course now for only $67 http://courses.therapynutshell.com/p/emotion-processing We often try to change ourselves by beating ourselves up. But you can't hate yo