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25 Coping Skills to get through a Crisis, Anxiety or Depression
Coping skills can be really important for Anxiety. They often soothe or comfort us, and help us to calm down and make better choices. However, coping skills do nothing to solve our problems in the long term, and some of them, if used exclusively, can be .
How to Turn off the Fear Response: Create a Sense of Safety Turn off Fight Flight Freeze Response
"How to Turn Off the Fear Response" is sponsored by Carvana. Find out how much your car is worth, get your free quote in 2 minutes at https://getcarvana.com/TherapyinaNutshell In this video you’re going to learn to recognize the lie of “perceived dang.
Parasympathetic Nervous System - Calming Anxiety with your Body’s built in Anti-Anxiety Response
You can learn to turn on the Parasympathetic Nervous System and calm anxiety by doing these simple body-based skills. Anxiety, PTSD, Trauma and other intense emotions are rooted in the nervous system, specifically the sympathetic response, but our body h.
How to Release Emotions Trapped in Your Body 10/30 How to Process Emotions Like Trauma and Anxiety
Trauma, Anxiety, and Other Emotions can get trapped in your body- essentially emotions can get stored in your autonomic nervous system response. Your Nervous system has two responses- the sympathetic response and the parasympathetic response, both serve .
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...