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How Anxiety Affects the Brain 9/30 How to Recognize and Turn off the Fight Flight Freeze Response
How does anxiety impact the biology of your brain? When your deep brain perceives a threat it turns on the anxiety response. Anxiety turns down your ability to think and goes into a protective reactive mode called the Fight Flight Freeze Response. This i.
The Mind Body connection with Emotions 8/30 How to Process your Emotions Mind-Body Connection
Our emotions are stored not only in our brain, but in our bodily response. When we have a strong emotion, our body has a physical reaction. Emotions can seem trapped in our body when we have a chronic stress response, or other hurts. In this section ...
Primary Emotions vs. Secondary Emotions 7/30 Depression and Anxiety Skills How to Process Emotions
In the 7th skill in my How to Process your Emotions course you're going to learn about Primary and Secondary Emotions. Sometimes the emotion you're feeling isn't what you're really upset about. Primary and Secondary Emotions are a way of understanding wh.
Willingness- The Most Essential Skill for Processing Emotions 6/30 Depression and Anxiety Skills
This is the one skill I wish everyone had- Willingness- the ability to experience your emotions without needing to immediately escape or avoid them. Willingness is an essential skill from ACT- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, it's a practical way to le.
How to Stop Struggling with Anxiety and Intense Emotions- 5/30 How to Process Emotions
The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/therapyinanutshell03211 In this video, skill #5 from my course “How to Process your Emotions”, you’re going to learn how to tell if you’re mak.
Clean Pain vs. Dirty Pain 4/30 Radical Responsibility-Are You Creating Your Own Suffering?
Thanks to Noom for sponsoring this video! #ad #noom Take their health survey to get started today!: http://bit.ly/noom_therapyinanutshell The truth is that we create much of our own suffering. Why is this awesome? If we can identify something we...
The SIFT technique for Emotion Processing: Dr. Daniel Siegel The Whole Brain Child
Emotion processing is when you work through emotions, and in this technique for anxiety and other strong emotions, we cover the SIFT technique. the SIFT technique was developed by Dr. Dan Siegal and is a helpful technique for coping with anxiety and stre.
Fall Asleep Faster- Happy Place Meditation
This is a simple guided meditation to help you sleep, it’s called “Going to your happy place”. It can help you fall asleep faster, relax, and sleep more deeply. In this guided meditation, I walk you through visualizing your happy place, you safe place, y.
The Function of Emotions 3/30 Depression and Anxiety Skills- Why Coping Skills Can Make it Worse
The first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/therapyinanutshell02211 Coping skills for emotions like anger, depression, anxiety focus on making bad feeling go away, on feeling better in t.
Fostering a Nonjudgmental Attitude-The Lie of Positive and Negative Emotions 2/30 Depression Anxiety
A Nonjudgmental attitude toward emotions has been shown to be the most effective trait of mindfulness to help prevent depression and anxiety. A Non-judgmental attitude means describing your emotions instead of judging them. Letting go of judgment means t.