TIPs: The Brain & Change > Change and Personal Growth
Are you on the path of personal growth? Wanting to reach your full potential? Not sure where to start or what the next step is? Learn more about personal growth a reaching your full potential.
10 Questions to Map Out Your Relationship: Making the decision to go to couple’s therapy can be intimidating. Relationship expert Dr. John Gottman speculates that most couples wait an average of six years of continue reading
What is Trauma?
Words like traumatic, triggered, and dysregulated have become more common in day to day talk. This can be especially true if you follow self help influencers on social media continue reading
aka How To Be A Better Person
Are you stuck in an endless pit of self loathing? Perhaps spiraling into a state of crippling anxiety and overbearing depression? When stuck in a cloud of negative continue reading
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
- Annie Dillard
The quotation above is both hopeful and daunting: how you live, today, right now, IS your life. The sensation continue reading
A Self Soothing Exercise: Self-soothing is the ability to care for yourself emotionally in times of distress or discomfort. Self-soothing is the process of acknowledging how you’re feeling and dealing with it head on, and continue reading
In Hindu and Buddhist practices, mantras are considered sacred phrases that are sung or spoken in order to enhance concentration during meditation. These days, psychologists, yogis, and others have borrowed the term to mean a continue reading
Unfortunately, nearly every person has or will experience symptoms of depression to a certain degree. These symptoms include anhedonia (i.e., loss of interest in formerly pleasurable activities), melancholy, lethargy, changes to your sleep and diet continue reading
For many, college can be a wonderful time of self-exploration, connecting with others, and engaging in fun activities. Regardless if you went to college for four years or more, transitioning from college to working full continue reading
How many times have you walked away from an argument feeling worked up, overwhelmed, or defeated? Part of the challenge may be that you are too emotionally fused or codependent and end up being emotionally continue reading
Have you been in a conversation or a situation where someone has said something that’s triggered you to react? Maybe you’ve become angry, or frustrated, or sad? And once you feel this emotion, you say continue reading
Do you find yourself stuck in the past, ruminating over previous conversations or interactions? Or maybe you’re focused on the future, stressing about what could happen or how your future could be affected by your continue reading
It is mid-summer here in Philadelphia and that means it’s hot as an oven (at least by Northern standards). It’s time to put on those shorts, swimsuits, summer dresses and sleeveless tops. If you are continue reading
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is about acknowledging our emotions from a non-judgmental standpoint, which equips the person to better handle uncomfortable emotional states. Impartial acceptance of emotions is very important with Acceptance and Commitment continue reading
Feeling Lonely: One day you are sitting alone after a long day and it hits you: you are feeling lonely. Whether you moved to a new city, had a falling out with a friend, or continue reading
Coping with PMDD: PMDD, or Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, is when premenstrual symptoms are more severe than PMS, occurring for a longer period of time, and affecting mental health symptoms, such as depression, anxiety, and irritability continue reading
